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...Zuma the intellectual contortions that led even Mandela to cast crime as a white, counterrevolutionary plot or Mbeki to see AIDS as a Western drug-company conspiracy. Not for him either the obsession with meeting his former white masters on their terms. If he has a creed, aides say, it is pragmatism, the kind that led him to appoint Pieter Mulder, leader of the white, farm-based Afrikaner party Freedom Front Plus, as deputy minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries...
...beneficiaries of kickbacks worth thousands of dollars. With Mbeki and Zuma slugging it out at the time, the courts and the state prosecutors became their arena, at considerable cost to the judiciary's independence. Prosecutors finally dropped the case in April, two weeks before Zuma became their new boss. Says Feinstein, "To talk about crime and corruption when he has undermined the judicial system, to talk about the role of women when he has three wives, it rings hollow. That's Zuma's big problem. He has correctly identified the issues and he knows exactly what he needs to say...
Zuma describes the demonstrations as recurring annual phenomenon. But he is not complacent. "[The protests] say to the government that we had better move," he says. "It's a wake-up call. 'Deal with this! Pay serious attention!' If we do not deal with these things now, people will lose confidence in the ANC." That is the promise of Jacob Zuma. That after half a century in which so many of Africa's independence hopes soured into arrogant dictatorships, the new leader of its proudest democracy accepts that if he wants the job, he's got to earn...
...People who say they’re too young don’t know them very well,” says Mariah A. Bush ’10, a close friend of the young couple’s and their official wedding photographer...
...couple’s hopes and plans for the future have defied their peers’ skepticism. While they say they have been lucky to avoid encounters with homophobia and have been accepted and supported by most of the people closest to them, their greatest trial has been in their interactions with Nauert’s parents. Though they were relatively understanding when Nauert came out to them as bisexual before starting college, their reaction to his relationship with Stallings was less accepting...