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...extraordinary comeback--he was recently endorsed by the ANC Women's League--is testament to the anger the aloof Mbeki arouses in the party's rank and file. At the ANC conference, delegates booed him and drowned out his allies with songs supporting Zuma, whose rejection by South Africa's élite has made him a hero to the poor. The constitution prevents Mbeki from running for re-election, but Zuma will also be barred if he is convicted of corruption. That means South Africa's leadership could hinge on whether its new top politician...
...told an audience in Audubon, Iowa, last month, "because not only do I have the experience of working at the highest levels of government on foreign policy but also because the leaders of others counties will know that I've got family members that live in small villages in Africa that are poor so I know what they're going through." It is an argument he has made in most of his stump speeches lately, as he tries to show that his judgment trumps the years of foreign policy experience of men like Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary...
...failure of South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki to be reelected leader of the African National Congress is a dramatic indicator of how far the ruling party's leadership has strayed from its liberation struggle roots. In a stunning repudiation of the Mbeki era, the man who succeeded Nelson Mandela at the helm of the organization won the support of only 39% of the 3,900 delegates to the party congress, compared with 60% for the populist former Deputy President Jacob Zuma. And this while Zuma, 65, still faces corruption charges in the South African courts. The result leaves President...
...Political analyst Professor Adam Habib told South Africa's Business Day newspaper, "[Mbeki] should have spoken from the heart, and acknowledged some of the blame. He said someone else was to blame. With this, he cemented the divisions...
...President's aloof and distant style will soon fade into the ANC's past, but its failure under his leadership to redress the country's growing economic apartheid could dog the party for years to come. Mbeki has presided over eight years of economic boom in South Africa, and the country is predicted to grow by around 5% for the next five years. But the poor have hardly benefited. Official unemployment figures stand at 26%, and a November study by South Africa's Institute for Race Relations found the numbers of people living on less than $1 a day rose...