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...does the name of this two-time queen of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club draw more hits on Google than that of Vice President Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, or U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon? Who is this woman so notable as to be listed alongside Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and Madeleine Albright on Wellesley’s “notable alumnae” webpage...
...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...
...Africa's top soccer teams, Zuma finally came clean on Wednesday that he was in fact the baby's daddy. "The matter is now between the two of us, and culturally, between the Zuma and Khoza families," he said, adding that he had made a payment of inhlawulo, a Zulu word for the compensation (traditionally a cow and goat) that a man gives a woman's family for impregnating her outside marriage. He also blasted the "harsh media exposure" on the child, saying it was "unfortunate" and "merely because of the position I occupy." "The media is in essence questioning...
...that meant he loved all his wives equally - he replied, to laughter from the audience, "Absolutely. That's my culture. It does not take anything from me, from my political beliefs, including the belief in the equality of women." Then, in a refrain that resonates across South Africa's Zulu and Xhosa townships -as well as the whole of Africa - he added, "Some think that their culture is superior to others. That's a problem we have in the world." (See TIME's coverage of the 2010 World Economic Forum in Davos...