The Rhetoric of Thabo Mbeki on HIV/AIDS: Strategic Scapegoating?
Titel:
The Rhetoric of Thabo Mbeki on HIV/AIDS: Strategic Scapegoating?
Auteur:
Sheckels, Theodore F.
Verschenen in:
Howard journal of communications
Paginering:
Jaargang 15 (2004) nr. 2 pagina's 69-82
Jaar:
2004-01
Inhoud:
South African President Thabo Mbeki's rhetoric on HIV/AIDS has been severely criticized in his nation and, especially, in “The West”. A close examination of this rhetoric reveals not only how it evolved rather quickly through very different phases but how it was arguably sincere, angry, and shrewd. Mbeki had sincere questions to ask and, eventually, angry accusations to make. As he did so, he also attempted to unite the Black majority behind his government in opposition to “The West”. “The West” was, in the drama Mbeki created, the scapegoat. A similar scapegoating strategy is used in Mbeki's 1999 inaugural address and is incipient in 1996 and 1998 speeches. In these other addresses, Mbeki scapegoats the apartheid government, not “The West”. His rhetorical goal (i.e., to unify South Africa's black majority as victims) was, however, the same.
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