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...acquitted) and corruption (the charges were dropped) was fit for office. So many African liberation movements have gone from triumph to tyranny, hope to corruption. Even with the saintly figure of former leader Nelson Mandela in the wings, would Zuma and his party, the African National Congress (ANC), do the same? (See pictures of South Africa after 15 years of ANC rule...
Zuma agrees too that the ANC is in crisis, alienated from its people by power and riches. "The success of liberation ... tests the clarity" of even the best African revolutionaries, he says. "Many liberation movements have turned into something else and abandoned what they were. The ANC came to that point ... where we might have fallen." The fix, he says, is in "renewal ... paying attention to [the ANC's] principles [but] talking about ... how we have to do things differently." A presidential adviser underlines the new tone. "The big difference today is that now we have a leadership that says...
...ANC came to that point. And what it is doing now - renewal - is a measure of how it is able to rise to the occasion. It's paying attention to its principles and values. It's talking about the renewal of the organization and how we have to do things differently. We cannot say after 15, 20 years that we cannot resolve our issues. This is about our capacity to adapt to new conditions, to analysts what are the new challenges. That's what the ANC is doing right now. We are just past the stage where we might have...
...there a sense in which you've had to introduce this renewal and create a new government structure to monitor yourselves because, with such a huge electoral majority, the polls don't do it for you? Are you trying to create the democracy - the accountability and transparency - that the ANC's majority negates. Zuma: We're dealing with a party that is very strong and is loved by the people. The opposition might have many things to say but they are not very strong. They cannot challenge us successfully - we are too strong. And the problem is that such support...
TIME: I notice another departure under your leadership. Traditionally, the ANC has taken on board the liberal attitudes of the left, including tolerance. But in Durban, you sounded very conservative on some social issues like the need for discipline in schools, alcohol and even sex and violence on television. Zuma: I don't think it's conservatism. What we're saying is: let's have a conversation. Take alcohol. Liquor is used to dehumanize us. If you go to the Western or Northern Cape where, in some places, they have the tot system [paying workers in high-alcohol...