Mbeki hits back on poverty

[Syndyre]

President Thabo Mbeki on Friday railed against the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) for making "the startling claim" that more South Africans are now poorer than they were in 1996.

Writing in his weekly newsletter on the African National Congress website, he said the truth will prevail, and the pernicious tendency to falsify reality to advance the particular agendas of forces against the movement and national democratic revolution has to be opposed.

Is it just me or is Mbeki sounding more and more like a ranting revolutionary?

 

[Alan]

Is it just me or is Mbeki sounding more and more like a ranting revolutionary?

He always sounded like that to me

 

[ToxicBunny]

Its not just you..

He is sounding more and more like a lunatic on a daily basis.

 

[Syndyre]

He always sounded like that to me

I mean he's getting worse.

 

[Alan]

I mean he's getting worse.

Oh sorry

Yeah he is. I think we need to do a timeline graph and compare him with mad BoB.

 

[SlinkyMike]

'pernicious' ...thats a 10 pointer for sure!

 

[Syndyre]

Oh sorry

Yeah he is. I think we need to do a timeline graph and compare him with mad BoB.

lol.

All the Marxist terms seem to be coming out lately.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Is it just me or is Mbeki sounding more and more like a ranting revolutionary?

Ppl who don't want to accept the truth will lose out big-time.

 

[Syndyre]

Ppl who don't want to accept the truth will lose out big-time.

Meaning?

 

[Ricard]

Part 2

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20071116144541184C984988

The SA Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) has defended itself after President Thabo Mbeki launched a tirade against it on Friday for making "the startling claim" that more South Africans are now poorer than they were in 1996.

...

"While the President is correct that this shows a fall in the proportion of people living in poverty from 50.1 percent in 1993 to 43.2 percent in 2006, the actual numbers, however, show that the number of people living in poverty have gone up from 18.9 million people to 20.5 million people.

 

[Beta]

Like he really writes a letter every week, lol.

 

[Syndyre]

Doesn't seem like Mbeki has much of a case.

 

[Syndyre]

Like he really writes a letter every week, lol.

He has a weekly column, ANC today or something. Probably written by a speechwriter though.

 

[Skeptik]

I don't think he likes to hear about his failures. Yet another sign of his controlling (& senile) tendancies.

I've noticed also that he's quite late in responding to issues. We've discussed them long before he pips in with his opinion. (Slow reader/typist)