'Eight years ago, I went through the same experience as Mbeki'.
New African › Nbr. 2000, December 2000
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'Eight years ago, I went through the same experience as Mbeki'.
An eyewitness account by the former science correspondent of The Sunday Times (London).
The year 2000 saw the birth of a new international sport. It became known as "Mbeki-bashing". Newspapers, broadcast media, doctors and scientists, charities, UN agencies, financial institutions and officials even up to the level of the White House, joined in the fun. The target was of course President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa. The aim was to cast as much ridicule and derision on him as possible, as Baffour Ankomah and Pusch Commey described in October's New African. It didn't matter how outrageous the claims made, no one with power or influence would protest, because Mbeki had done the one thing all "right-thinking" opinion leaders detest: he questioned the HIV theory of Aids. During the summer, Mbeki brought together neatly 40 scientists from across the world to advise him on the causes and treatment of AIDS. Two thirds of ...See the full content of this document
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