Word: zwelinzima
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...brotherliness, heroism, optimism." Mbeki aspired to the same qualities, to be a "person who does good, and does it honestly," he tells Gevisser. But Coriolanus is a tragedy. The hero becomes a vainglorious despot. Mbeki is no Coriolanus, but as his paranoia and isolation reached new heights last year, Zwelinzima Vavi, the general secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, warned the country may be "drifting toward dictatorship." For Mbeki, stopping Zuma, whom he had come to view as wholly unfit for office, seemed to become the end to justify all means. "The possibility of a Zuma presidency...
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