Mbeki Leaves Mixed Legacy

How aloof leader will be remembered

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 20, 2008 4:55 PM CDT

(Newser) – Thabo Mbeki could never be as beloved as Nelson Mandela, so he didn’t try, writes Mark Tran in the Guardian. Instead, Mbeki projected himself as a competent technocrat: cool, aloof, almost disdainful of popular opinion. He leaves behind a legacy as inscrutable as that... Read full story »

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