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MbekiÂ’s nuggets from the Bible and the Bard too lofty for ordinary folk?
2006-03-17
Clare Nullis
Sapa-AP

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has shared the writings of Deng Xiaoping with his intelligence services, intoned Duke Ellington to oil executives, astounded astronomers with Shakespeare and preached the Bible to legislators.

Presidential spokesman Murphy Morobe says, with understatement: “He is extremely well read.” But such lofty phrases may be lost on ordinary South Africans, 12% of whom cannot read or write.

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