Next week,SA’s first ‘African’ ruler; to quote Mutuma Mathiu,Zuma will become president. I don’t have faith in this guy at all! You should see him perfoming the Umshini wami (bring me my machine gun) song in full Zulu regalia; spears,feathers and all…..it’s hilarious. To think he will be SA’s president…..he will embarrass them.

I’m very interested to see how his policies on helping poor blacks will work. Former Pres.Thabo had one called BEE (Black Economic Empowerment) which was meant to empower blacks but it failed; the few blacks who benefited helped there cronies; helped create what are known as the ‘Black Diamonds’ (or Rand Billionaires) people like Tokyo Sexwale and Cyril Ramaphosa….the latter i’m sure some of you remember him…..he had come to mediate between Raila and Kibaki after post election violence but was hurled out of the country Kenya style after he was accused of being biased since he allegedly was Raila’s ‘business patner’. I hope my cynism is misplaced,otherwise SA is in deep *&^$



South Africa… welcome back to Africa.hahahahaha!


First there was white power,then black power,now there's no power!

@Xtina,

Zuma is a large despot in the making.......Something worse than Robert........Asked about who of his four wives would become first lady,here is what that 'mug' said,

'There is no First Lady. If there is an occasion,one day we will have the wife we are with,another day we will have another one.' ........Let's just say we ain't seen it all but what do we expect when bouncers take over from teachers?


Guka wa bijuti...

i am currently in south and i can tell you guys here either love or hate him with a passion. alot like raila-mania/phobia. Zuma is an astute politician. he outfoxed mbeki like a school kid. mbeki comes from a big rich family and was an introvert hence never really connected with the ordinary folk. that fact alone makes the zulus absolutely love the guy.i mean an un-educated guy who manages to bring down a sitting president... gotta respect a dude like that. people all over the world are tired of sons of the rich and famous being shoved down their throats at the ballot. another thing you need to always remember is that the media here is generally white controlled,and they hate the guy with a passion. Basically lets wait untill he occupies the high seat and judge him by how he performs. he has said he will not change any of the major economic policies initiated by Mbeki.

He who laughs last thinks slowest..

A standard 3 dropout.

Kioko

'Connecting with the people' is good PR but we all know that PERFORMANCE is not based on 'connecting with the people'... Reminds me of Chinua Achebe's 'A Man of the People'... Achebe is a genius.

Greedy when others are fearful,Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase WB

Monikers i have loved most so far concerning the SA elections:

1. Zuma is going to turn SA into 'Zumbabwe'...hahaha

2. Thabob Mugabeki: a cartoon strip making fun of Pres Mugabe na the Fmr Pres. Thabo,on his infamous comments 'Zimbabwe has no crisis'.

I love Africa,despite all our issues. I take pride in knowing all that takes place in our motherland. I have pretty big misgivings about Zuma,but a little part of me is for the guy.
I hope the poor blacks will better themselves,since 'one of their own' is about to become at the helm of their country,stop blaming whites for their situations,even get rid of their xenophobic paranoia.
All the best to SA elections.

First there was white power,then black power,now there's no power!