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The ANC continues to listen to constructive criticism by the public, however when such criticism comes from a spent force and a convicted fraudster such as Mangope, we find it difficult to respond.
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The ANC continues to listen to constructive criticism by the public, however when such criticism comes from a spent force and a convicted fraudster such as Mangope, we find it difficult to respond.
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Mangope could not be immediately reached for comment on Greeff's claims.
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From what I can gather after reading this article on Google, the Apartheid government appointed him as the head of the Bophuthatswana Bantustan in 1972 because Mangope went along with their policy of separating the races.
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The fnext story I heard about Mangope I sort of stumbled across by accident.
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According to one report I found on Google, Mangope was born in 1923 in the Transvaal.
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I can't say if Mangope was corrupt or not but apparently he put the income from Sun City to very good use.
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Here's another rumor I heard about Mangope: Back in the day of the Bantustans, Black South Africans had no access to formal education, which meant that almost no one had a degree in nursing or engineering or even knew much about farming.
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So Mangope knew that there was a big problem here but he got around it by setting up an apprenticeship system, educating people on the job.
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Listening to this side of the story, I made the assumption that Mangope had been merely a self-serving obstructionist who had foolishly stood in front of the Mack truck of history and had been forced to jump to the side of the road as Mandela swept to victory, end of story.
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