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...Thabo Mbeki, then 54, succeeded Nelson Mandela as leader of the African National Congress (ANC). Two years later, he followed Mandela again when he was elected in a landslide as President of South Africa. Barring an upset, however, these are Mbeki's last days as leader of the party that defined South Africa's liberation struggle. The ANC will elect its next President later this month at a party congress, and Mbeki's party deputy and bitter rival Jacob Zuma has already established a crushing lead over the incumbent. Mbeki will continue as South Africa's President until 2009, when...
...President is an intellectual dissident with a lifelong habit of fighting against the majority view. That drove him to persuade the ANC to talk to apartheid's rulers, not just fight them. And it led him to steer the ANC away from its Marxist faith and toward the free market. But that same contrarian instinct is also behind the positions for which he has been most harshly criticized: his refusal to condemn Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, and his skepticism, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, that hiv is the principal cause of aids. Granted, his behind-the-scenes diplomacy...
...nourished in exile. After so many years in Europe spent sublimating his life to the struggle, Gevisser writes, Mbeki felt a "disconnect" to his homeland once he arrived there. And he soon realized he would be forever in Mandela's shadow. For Mbeki, faced with crises of Zulu-ANC violence, crime, aids and poverty, the homecoming triumph never happened...
...equality, justice and democracy but because "I was oppressed." He panders to popular prejudices, calling same-sex marriage a "disgrace to the nation and to God" and boasting that when he was a boy, he would "knock out" homosexuals. Crucially, he benefits from his position as an outsider. Many ANC supporters are unhappy with what they claim is the government's pursuit of economic growth over equality: millions of South Africans still live in the same tin-roof townships to which they were confined under apartheid. A target of particular outrage has been the emergence of a moneyed black...
...ANC leader disowned by his more refined colleagues, Zuma has become a champion of the disappointed. His supporters gathered by the thousands outside the courthouse during his rape trial. In June, when public-sector workers went on strike for several weeks, they chanted Zuma's name at rallies. He has the official endorsements of the ANC's powerful Youth League and the party's partners, the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions. He has also been trying to widen his appeal. After meeting local business leaders in September, Zuma told TIME, "If international businesspeople...