{"id":841,"date":"2008-05-20T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T19:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=841"},"modified":"2008-05-20T15:00:40","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T19:00:40","slug":"great-job-mbeki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/05\/20\/great-job-mbeki\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Job, Mbeki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s President Thabo Mbeki has been loathe to use his stature and office to nudge his fellow African leaders into improvements in their own countries.\u00c2\u00a0 And now he&#8217;s paying for it, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afp.com\/english\/news\/stories\/newsmlmmd.b45cc6f73600d95529e0de9b10c506f1.71.html\">his own population starts threatening the refugees<\/a> from those failing countries:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A wave of violence against foreigners in South Africa has forced 13,000 people to flee their homes, the UN said Tuesday, as President Thabo Mbeki pleaded for an end to a &#8220;shameful&#8221; show of xenophobia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>South Africa has achieved a measure of practical tolerance and reconciliation that most nations could only dream about.\u00c2\u00a0 And yet here we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s President Thabo Mbeki has been loathe to use his stature and office to nudge his fellow African leaders into improvements in their own countries.\u00c2\u00a0 And now he&#8217;s paying for it, as his own population starts threatening the refugees from those failing countries: A wave of violence against foreigners in South Africa has forced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}