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...been at the forefront of the anti-gay movement in the country. Until October, he was associated with the enormously influential Saddleback Church run by Pastor Rick Warren, the author of The Purpose Driven Life. Controversy over the anti-gay bill, however, led Warren, who has a large East African network of connections, to sever ties with Ssempa. Ssempa, who has told reporters of a secret group of witches who live beneath Lake Victoria, has a rapt student following and has organized antihomosexuality parades and burned condoms. Warren, who hews to evangelical Christianity's denunciation of homosexual behavior, was involved...
Zuma agrees too that the ANC is in crisis, alienated from its people by power and riches. "The success of liberation ... tests the clarity" of even the best African revolutionaries, he says. "Many liberation movements have turned into something else and abandoned what they were. The ANC came to that point ... where we might have fallen." The fix, he says, is in "renewal ... paying attention to [the ANC's] principles [but] talking about ... how we have to do things differently." A presidential adviser underlines the new tone. "The big difference today is that now we have a leadership that says...
...public test will come next June, when South Africa stages the football World Cup - whose expected 500,000 fans will deliver an unprecedented challenge to his government's ability to deliver on security, transport and infrastructure upgrades. Zuma has also set himself other ambitious targets against which the South African public can judge him. In his state of the nation address in June, the new President promised half a million public-works jobs by the end of this year and 4 million by 2014; universal primary education and 95% enrolment in secondary schools...
Zuma, in fact, seems most comfortable at his most African, drawing political lessons from folksy tales of his upbringing and, at rallies, dancing in leopard skins and singing the doggedly politically incorrect Zulu anthem "Bring Me My Machine Gun." As Gordin says, he is "South Africa's first real African President." "I am a Zulu," says Zuma, in an echo of his predecessor's famous "I am an African" speech. "I should not be trying to be an American or more British. I must be a Zulu." (See Jacob Zuma's profile in the 2008 TIME...
...white scarves. The group began fighting Ethiopian troops and the weak interim government almost immediately after the invasion; today it controls large areas of the nation's central and southern regions. Al-Shabab carries out near daily attacks against the government as well as against aid groups and African Union peacekeepers operating in the country. Its members are mainly Somalis, though it has also attracted fighters from the U.S., Yemen and Pakistan as well as recruits from other African nations. The official head of al-Shabab is Sheik Mohamed Mukhtar Abdirahman, known as Abu Zubeyr, though several senior officials...