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South Africa goes to the polls Wednesday in an election billed as the most important since Nelson Mandela led his nation to overthrow apartheid 15 years ago. How so, when the result - a landslide for the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the election of its leader Jacob Zuma to the presidency - is barely in doubt? Here's TIME's quick question-and-answer guide to South Africa's general election: (Read "Why South Africa's Over The Rainbow...
Does that mean Jacob Zuma will be President? Almost certainly. He is the President of the ANC, and the national President is elected by Parliament, whose members, under a proportional-representation system, are allocated seats according to their party's share of Wednesday's vote...
Second, Jacob Zuma will be a controversial inheritor of Mandela's legacy. He faced charges of corruption for years in a case that was dropped in early April but may yet be revived. He was also once accused of rape, though acquitted after a high-profile court case. And whereas Mandela urged high-minded reconciliation and forgiveness in power, Zuma's appeal is populist and his supporters are regularly accused of inciting animosity or interfering in the institutions of state for their own political purposes. This all fits the pattern of a party whose moral authority has rapidly declined...
...Zuma, who portrays himself as an outsider, capitalized on that discontent to depose the previous leadership of the ANC and former President Thabo Mbeki. But not everyone is convinced. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, for one, says he will not vote ANC this time around, saying it has betrayed the hope of the Mandela years...
...Neil Young incorporates in his latest album sounds that are most reminiscent of his 1981 record “Re-Ac-Tor,” but at “Fork’s” best moments, one is reminded even of his 1975 “Zuma,” in its use of lyrical yet powerful riffs. “Fork in the Road” opens with “When Worlds Collide,” announced by sets of heavily distorted guitar chords, the garage-rock sound of which feels appropriate given the album?...