A rare Mbeki outburst

Mbeki completely loses his cool on crime

… And why he and Zuma don’t differ on Zimbabwe

James Myburgh
19 March 2007

For a long time now President Thabo Mbeki has managed to keep his resentments bottled up. Last week they finally boiled over. He wrote in ANC Today that a significant proportion of the white minority "continues to live in fear of the black, and especially African majority. For this section of our population...every reported incident of crime communicates the frightening and expected message that - the k****** are coming!"