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05/30/2004:

"Mbeki alleges campaign to descredit South Africa"

SOUTH AFRICA - Unidentified forces were trying to undermine South Africa’s international status and had attempted to sabotage the country’s 2010 Soccer World Cup bid, President Thabo Mbeki claimed in parliament on Thursday.

He said there were people who wanted to see the African National Congress (ANC) government fail, and were propagating a false image of the country.

These included a US-based ratings company, London-based fund managers and South African mining executives, Mbeki told the National Assembly in his reply to the debate on his state of the nation address. www.africaonline.co.zw