From an August 14 anonymous memo marked “TOP SECRET: FOR AFRICAN EARS ONLY” and addressed to all African health ministers. The memo and accompanying excerpts from Behold a Pale Horse, by William Cooper, were subsequently circulated, without comment, by South African health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang to local officials throughout the country. In the excerpt, Cooper claims that, faced with the knowledge that “by or shortly after the year 2000 the total collapse of civilization as we know it and the possible extinction of the human race could occur,” the “ruling elite” set out to suppress the world’s population growth and…