JOHANNESBURG - President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, the loser in a prolonged power struggle with his rival, Jacob Zuma, agreed yesterday to resign after the top echelon of his party, the African National Congress, asked him to quit.
Yesterday's events bring to a close a nine-year presidency during which Mbeki brought a moribund economy back from its death bed. But whatever those gains, they moved too sluggishly to lift up most of those in need. Unemployment, variously estimated at between 25 and 40 percent, has remained a manacle on the millions of South Africans living in the shanties.
At the same time, Mbeki became internationally notorious for his views about AIDS, joining maverick scientists in questioning whether a virus was the cause of the illness. He led the resistance to antiretroviral treatment, acting as if the AIDS epidemic were a defamatory plot against Africans and a con job by avaricious pharmaceutical companies. This intransigence, critics contend, sent countless thousands to a needless death.
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Yeah, sure, blame the African guy for the deaths like you would blame a rape victim, MSM.
NYT can't even report that right; yeah, it is a virus, NYT, but it is a MAN-MADE ONE to GO AFTER CERTAIN POPULATIONS and ENRICH PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATIONS!!!!
Please see: Was AIDS Man-Made?
The cat is out of the bag, MSM, and we NO LONGER BELIEVE YOUR LIES!!!!!!!
