President Mbeki said.....

So, President Mbeki, was apparently discussing knowledge at a lecture last night (because I bet you it was not a speech) at Stellenbosch University. Below is what he is quoted as saying in the papers: "False knowledge was advanced that the Gaddafi regime was about to slaughter millions of civilians,……. This was to justify the imposition of a no-fly zone over Libya which served as a cover to overthrow the Libyan government and impose a regime approved by the Western powers in their interest." Dear Sir, I was not in Stellenbosch but if the papers are quoting you verbatim, I'm sorry "false knowledge" is oxymoronic; misinformation I can deal with. Secondly, to insinuate that it was used to advance western powers agenda on Libya is neither here nor there; you have been in the hot seat before, which nation-state acts altruistically in such instances? Of course it was to advance their own agenda! It's about time Africa did the same, instead of whining when the early bird catches the worm! You snooze, you lose! No agenda, no air! Information has to be synthesized in order to be knowledge, therefore it is implicit from what the former president was saying that it seems there is one party that has monopoly on the synthesizes of information. An assertion I hold to be false. I can concur, however that there are parties out there, that are more proactive in the synthesis/analyses of information, whilst others are more reactive, who is to blame? Joe Gogetter or Joe Letussee? Y