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...point at the moment." Raymond Louw, editor and publisher of the Southern Africa Report, a South Africa-based weekly, believes Zuma's recent behavior in some ways merits the crude treatment by the press. Last month, for instance, Zuma admitted to fathering a child out of wedlock, causing a national outcry. "The way they portrayed Zuma was rather extreme but I can understand why there would be a certain amount of criticism in view of his conduct over the past few months," he says. (See pictures of Johannesburg preparing for the World...
JACOB ZUMA, South African President, apologizing for fathering a child out of wedlock. Zuma has three wives and is engaged to a fourth woman...
...Zuma, who likes to celebrate his Zulu ancestry by dancing onstage in leopard skins, is unlikely to care what the rest of the world thinks about the fact that he fathered a child out of wedlock - and so far, that unrepentant African pride has won him admirers across South Africa and beyond. The accusation that he is undermining his own AIDS policy is more damaging, though. Zuma already stoked outrage in 2006 when, on trial for rape - a charge of which he was eventually acquitted - he admitted to having unprotected sex with a woman he knew to be HIV positive...
South African President Jacob Zuma has never been shy about defending his right - sometimes with a joke and a wink - to have three wives as a Zulu man, no matter how much Westerners may disapprove of his polygamous ways. But when it comes to fathering a child out of wedlock, Zuma has been much more tight-lipped - and nowhere near as comical...
...Controversy and intrafamily feuds are part of the Thyssen dynasty fabric. The Baroness had Borja out of wedlock with a previous paramour but convinced her rich husband, who was 22 years her senior, to adopt Borja and to give him the Thyssen surname. She and Thyssen also adopted two girls. In March 2002, Thyssen, who died later that year, settled an expensive lawsuit with his eldest son over the disposition of the family's $2 billion trust...