No stranger to controversy, Roberts, a political commentator and author, is making enemies again with his newest book on South Africa's president, Fit to Govern: The Native Intelligence of Thabo Mbeki. The book, released this month by STE Publishers, undertakes what the Mail & Guardian calls “the first systematic defence of Mbeki’s controversial presidency”—a move not likely to endear Roberts to Mbeki’s abundant critics.
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