Word: apartheid
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...President of South Africa. Mbeki has two years left in his second term--the constitution bars him from a third. In December, Zuma will try to replace him as president of the African National Congress (ANC), which has dominated politics since, under Nelson Mandela, it was instrumental in ending apartheid in 1994. If Zuma wins the party presidency at the ANC conference in the northern city of Polokwane, he is all but assured of elevation to South Africa's highest office in 2009. The only man who could beat Zuma to the party post is the incumbent, but though Mbeki...
...when Zuma was 3, and his mother found work as a domestic servant in Durban. Zuma was working full-time doing odd jobs by 15. His elder brother was an ANC member, and at 17 Zuma joined too. In 1963 he was arrested, convicted of trying to overthrow the apartheid government and sentenced to 10 years. After his release, Zuma helped organize underground resistance to apartheid, eventually becoming the ANC's intelligence chief...
This tale of triumph over adversity accounts for much of Zuma's appeal with the masses. So does his plainspokenness. He says he fought apartheid not for lofty ideals like racial 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...
...former South African president who engineered an end to apartheid said last night that his country was not the only nation guilty of pervasive racial discrimination...
...Apartheid didn’t start in 1948. It wasn’t started by my people, the Afrikaaners,” F. W. de Klerk said in remarks at the Institute of Politics last night...