Xolela Mangcu on the writer who is trying hard to rehabilitate South African president Mbeki through the book Fit to Govern: The Native Intelligence of Thabo Mbeki:
"My criticism, for the most part, is a political one. What Mbeki has never got, and what Roberts does not get, is that we never wanted a “rigorous student of language and stereotypes” for a president.
What we wanted was a leader who could reach out into the “vast deep” of despair and despondency and mobilise people towards action."
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Mhambi's qoutables: Xolela Mangcu on Mbeki and Ronald Suresh Roberts
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2 comments:
i get the second quote. oh, I really like your blog... :)
Thanks Priya, really aprreciate that.
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