1.0 link 129455 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sean-jacobs/the-exit-of-george-bushs_b_129455.html Thabo Mbeki -- unceremoniously dumped by his party as South Africa's President last weekend -- was routinely referred to by George W. Bush as his "point man" in Africa. For the leading member of a movement with historical ties to the Soviet Union that until recently was on the State Department's terrorist watch list, Mbeki enjoyed an unusually close relationship with the Bush Administration. It probably had less to do with any ideological convergence than the fact the US...

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