1.0 link 108993 <![CDATA[The African Wall of Silence Must Crumble: My Exchange with Thabo Mbeki Over Zimbabwe]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-lauria/my-exchange-with-thabo-mb_b_108993.html Thabo Mbeki inherited the South African presidency from Nelson Mandela. Though not of the same stature, Mbeki was a leading activist with the African National Congress against European colonialism and white supremacy.

Working mostly from abroad, Mbeki was a comrade of Robert Mugabe, who was engaged in a similar struggle in neighboring Rhodesia.

Their determination to end oppression is undisputed. But oppression comes in many forms. It is not exclusively British, Western or white.

The triumph of Mugabe's Zanu PF party in 1980...

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