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Democracy in South Africa Re "Why South Africa's Over the Rainbow" [April 20]. While the concern around a Zuma presidency is warranted, opposition parties to the ANC will fight to prevent the country sliding into chaos. South Africa is the greatest country in Africa, and is worth fighting for. S.K. Sonderup, PORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA...
...know a fair amount about South Africa's new President as a man. Jacob Zuma has six wives and 19 children, and he has been tried for rape (acquitted) and corruption (case dropped). His party, the African National Congress, sells him as an affable consensus-builder and a champion of the dispossessed - and on both counts, it's true, he scores. But we know very little about him as a policy-maker. Zuma has consistently refused to answer questions of policy, describing himself as a cipher for his party. After he was elected President last month, that argument became...
...news? Despite many hints that he wanted a to create a big tent government, Zuma apparently failed to persuade former trade union leader turned billionaire Cyril Ramaphosa to take a position. Ramaphosa is an ANC heavyweight. Many see him as the ANC President that never was (he was Nelson Mandela's preferred successor; the job went to Mbeki instead). The corporate sector, which admires his accumulative skills, would have seen his inclusion as further reassurance. Still, Ramaphosa has been out of South Africa's political scene for a long time. A cabinet position would have been something; his absence...
...prepared to die for Zuma. Not only that, we are prepared to take up arms and kill for Zuma." - Juluis Malema, the leader of the African National Congress's Youth League, at a rally in June 2008. (Newsweek, Sept...
...Justice is the name of my next wife." - A slogan referencing Zuma's polygamy spotted in Johannesburg. (The Observer, April...