Regular readers will recall Mrs Thatcher explaining monetarism.Seems as if Cde Mbeki has been taking clarity lessons from the great dame. In this week’s ANC Today, the President explains the compatibility of vast job losses and grinding poverty with a glowing assessment of the ANC’s economic record
“In other words, with reference to the paradigm of simple logic, a specific progression from the particular to the general has sought to present a general picture that is putatively consistent with the particular, but is, in fact, inconsistent with the overall general reality. “
Read Mbeki’s fuller thoughts on logic
here.