SA presidents continue to receive a salary and a host of benefits after they leave office, at the taxpayers’ expense.
Everybody knows that Jacob Zuma wasn’t exactly swimming in academic excellence, but how do our other post-1994 presidents compare?
Former president Thabo Mbeki has said that South Africans need to boycott Israeli-sourced products to help with the Palestinian people’s dire situation.
Following his opening address for the International Knowledge Conference at the University of Stellenbosch Business School, former president, Thabo Mbeki voiced some concerns about Twitter as “a great conveyor of reliable knowledge,” pointing to Gaddafi’s overthrow as a consequence of “false knowledge,” rather than the social media. Mbeki immediately started trending on Twitter.