Former president Thabo Mbeki has denied saying that action must be taken against South African Ambassador to Denmark Zindzi Mandela over her tweets on land reform.
In a statement, The Thabo Mbeki Foundation moved to clarify the former president’s remarks, and the context in which it was said.
The Foundation said the former president was asked if he had seen Mandela’s tweets and Mbeki answered no.
Mbeki, however explained, the statement said, “The discipline and culture of the diplomatic world in which, as representatives of the President of the Republic and broadly the Government, Ambassadors and High Commissioners represent official government policy; not their views and opinions.”
The statement added that were officials to express their personal views as and when they see fit,
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