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A confidential source working in the IT department in Parliament sent me this screengrab from President Thabo Mbeki’s inbox. Thought you might like to see it [click picture below to enlarge].

This entry was posted on Monday, August 27th, 2007 at 2:00 pm and is filed under Perspective. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

7 Responses to “Inside Mbeki’s inbox …”

classic hehehehehee!

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abel poka on August 27th, 2007 at 4:12 pm

Tony this is excellent, I can’t wait to see what your source leaks next!

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Vincent Maher on August 29th, 2007 at 6:54 am

very funny

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matt on August 29th, 2007 at 9:01 am

Must just post a comment here - had lots of people ask me where I got this from. Sad, but true, I created it myself. Should have included my own name in the inbox somewhere to try and get some sort of web infamy, didn’t realise that anyone would really care.
For those who are interested…here’s what I did:
Took a screen grab from Outlook and, using Paint Shop Pro, deleted the email area. Then pasted in the “Mbeki” emails. Used Lucinda Sans Unicode as the font, size 9 for the mails and size 10 for the navigation on the left. Had to adjust the kerning to -19 and the leading to 0.06 to get the mails in line with the envelope icons. And that was that…dead easy actually. EVEN I could do it…

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Tony Lankester on August 30th, 2007 at 4:31 pm

[…] see in this week’s M&G that the paper decided to take my post from Thought Leader and expand on it a bit, with some help of two of their journos (check out page […]

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Thought Leader » Tony Lankester » Mbeki's Inbox: Part 2 on August 31st, 2007 at 8:16 am

Hope to see each minister’s mailbox

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Thato on August 31st, 2007 at 2:08 pm

[…] in this week’s Mail & Guardian that the paper decided to take my post from Thought Leader and expand on it a bit, with some help of two of their journos (check out page […]

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Tony Lankester » Blog Archive » Mbeki’s inbox part 2 on October 26th, 2008 at 3:51 pm

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