ANOTHER NAME FOR THABO MBEKI IS IMBECILE

Thabo Mbeki is an imbecile, notwithstanding the amount of pipe smoking pseudo-intellectualism he puffs into the public arena. Between 1998 and 2004, the former president denied HIV/AIDS patients access to antiretroviral treatment. He was accused of contributing to over 300,000 deaths by delaying treatment. Despite incontrovertible scientific evidence, Mbeki in his recent weekly letter again questions the efficacy of antiretroviral drugs in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. The temerity of the man is astounding. He has no training in bio-sciences or medicine, yet engages in fallacious revisionism. But, then again he had the advice and counsel of his atrocious former health minister Tshabalala-Msimang, who advocated vegetables, fruit and olive oil for AIDS treatment. Their two cents worth to the AIDS pandemic adds new meaning to the expression " fools never differ". Mbeki should have made use of his weekly letter to express remorse and apologise to the nation, and in particular to the grieving families of those who died of AIDS. Mbeki's ignorance reminds one of Alexandre Duma Pere's quote: "I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest".