NOT SO LONG, AND WHO'S HE SERVING?
2002-08-27 13:55:38 PST
> THE WASHINGTON TIMES
> August 26, 2002
>
> JOHANNESBURG — After watching Arab nations wreck a U.N.
> conference on racism last year, South African officials say
> they are determined to make sure interest groups don't
> hijack the agenda of another global summit beginning here........
> "We will simply not allow our conference to be hijacked, as
> it so nearly was last time," said Aziz Pahad, the
> long-serving South African deputy foreign minister.
Ever committed to the cause of accurate journalism, the Nymandhlovu Cleft
Stick and Messenger is not afraid to correct errata in its own pages, as
well as in the pages of others.
We therefore point out that Aziz Pahad is not a long-serving South African
deputy foreign minister.
He is South African, he is the deputy foreign minister, but he is not long,
he is really rather short, and while he has been there for some considerable
time, what he has been doing can hardly be described as serving.
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