Word: mbeki
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...supporters staged a noisy rally in front of a giant TV screen outside the court in Pietermaritzburg. The hearing is expected to last two days, but the case itself will most likely drag on well beyond next April's elections - in which Zuma, having trounced current president Thabo Mbeki in a head-to-head race for leadership of the ruling African National Congress, looks primed to be elected president. (The ANC faces no serious challenge to its electoral majority...
...Zuma's legal difficulties are, in part, a reflection of the bitter power struggle that erupted inside the ruling ANC after the retirement of South Africa's first post-apartheid president, Nelson Mandela. Mbeki succeeded Mandela when he retired in 1998, with Zuma as his deputy, but the two became estranged over a variety of political issues and allegations of corruption against Zuma. In 2005, Mbeki fired Zuma as Deputy President.The following year, Zuma found himself facing separate criminal charges of rape and corruption. His supporters claimed the charges were fabricated by his political enemies, and Zuma was acquitted...
...revival of the graft case has spurred some Zuma supporters to hysterical defenses of their man. ANC Youth League President Julius Malema even declared that he would "kill" for Zuma. The power struggle between his supporters and those of Mbeki has been immensely damaging to a party whose moral authority as a liberation movement has plunged in its era of governance, buffeted by corruption scandals, an inability to tackle rising crime and unemployment, and the unseemly spectacle of some its core members and backers becoming billionaires while much of the country remains mired in poverty. At the weekend, former...
...South Africa. Zuma's supporters allege his rivals are using the organs of the state judicial system to fight a political battle against him, citing evidence that not all alleged offenders are pursued with equal vigor. Last year, for example, when South Africa's Commissioner of Police and loyal Mbeki supporter Jackie Selebi was facing prosecution over his links to an accused gang boss, Mbeki's administration suspended the prosecutor who had been trying to charge Selebi...
...ruled Zimbabwe since overthrowing the racist white Rhodesian government in 1980. At his inauguration speech last month, Mugabe unexpectedly promised talks with the opposition on sharing power. Last week, Mugabe met Tsvangirai in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, and agreed to begin talks mediated by South African President Thabo Mbeki. Those discussions began last week in Pretoria, with some suggesting that an agreement was possible within two weeks...