TOM EATON | Mbeki save the Cape ANC? Hell, or at least Antarctica, will freeze over first

There’s a lot about the world we don’t understand: the war in Ukraine, melting icebergs ... and Thabo Mbeki

21 March 2022 - 18:57

At first glance, the current heatwave in Antarctica doesn’t seem to have a lot in common with Thabo Mbeki. The one, after all, is a very distant, very cold thing that is slowly melting into oblivion, and the other is Antarctica...

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