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...even some of the more modest predictions about Jacob Zuma's rise to power had been correct, South Africa would be an empty, corrupt dictatorship by now. Back in 2006, South African memoirist Rian Malan ended his dismal assessment of the nation's prospects ("Not civil war, but sad decay") in British magazine the Spectator by asking: "Anyone want a house here?" A year ago, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said he was "deeply saddened" when Zuma staged a party coup against his predecessor Thabo Mbeki, "deeply disturbed" that both had used institutions of state in their struggle and warned that...
...presidency and in August gathered hundreds of school principals in Durban to answer their questions on reform. The same month, in the first of what he promises will be a series of surprise presidential inspections, he caught the mayor of the northern town of Balfour playing hooky. (See Jacob Zuma's profile in the 2008 TIME...
...Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma was born in April 1942 in the dirt-poor town of Nkandla among the deep gorges and steep ridges of the Zulu heartland in the southeastern province of what is now called KwaZulu-Natal. Unemployment in South Africa hovers at around 40% but in Nkandla it is 90%. Tarred roads, electricity and running water are a novelty if they exist at all, a quarter of the population is infected with HIV and only 3% graduate from high school. Though he grew up before AIDS, bad health was rife - his father, a policeman, died when...
...double that of The Blind Side's $129.3 million. And with a modest budget of $50 million, a worldwide cumulative gross of $570 million and two or three more Twilight movies in the offing, the franchise has a lot of bite left in it. (Read "New Moon Review: Team Jacob Ascending...
...only in the last few years that they've been scaling up AIDS programming, especially nonprevention programming," says MacLean. "As effective as they are, they're late to the game and they need more international resources." The need became even greater on Tuesday, when the country's new President, Jacob Zuma, announced a commitment to test all infants and provide free treatment to those found to be infected with HIV. (See pictures of children orphaned by AIDS in Malawi...