Zuma « martysmith.org

South Africans prepare for polls

BBC NEWS | Africa | South Africans prepare for polls.

Hmm I wonder who is going to win…

The website seems a bit sad at the moment, but you can folow along here.

Zuma dropped charges round up

Zuma dropped charges round [...]

The cartoon that Zapiro is being sued over.

Zuma sues South Africa cartoonist "Zapiro"

Zuma sues South Africa cartoonist “Zapiro”

Bring me my populist Zim policy buddy!

Here is an interesting story on Zuma’s two (current) wives. It would appear that he is in the process of paying lobola on what will be the third. He is divorced from Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and another wife Kate committed suicide in 2000.
The contents of Kate’s suicide note were recently in the news [...]

I take it all back!

In a 180 I now like Zuma. From the Cape Argus article here.

Taking a dig at Mbeki’s policy of “quiet diplomacy” towards Zimbabwe, Zuma said it was tragic that there were world leaders who witnessed repression and pretended that it was not happening or was exaggerated.

“When history eventually deals with the dictators, those who stood [...]

The Zuma Legal Troubles (pt1)

The Beeb has a good article providing a time line of Zuma’s past legal issues, here.

June 2005
Mr Zuma’s close associate Schabir Shaik found guilty of fraud and corruption in connection with a $4.8bn arms deal.
Judge Hilary Squires said there was evidence of “a mutually beneficial symbiosis” and that payments by Shaik to Mr Zuma “can [...]

Three guesses as to who won…

and the first two don’t count.
NYTimes article here.

Scholar and political analyst Xolela Mangcu said in a June speech, “There is nothing about his public actions that suggests he is a populist, that he would return power to the poor.”

I guess only time will tell many things about this situation. The race is on, Zuma versus [...]

Votes are being tallied as we speak,

Voting is under way! The end of the ANC is nigh!
Trevor Manuel weighs in on Zuma and his chief strategist, Mo Shaik, here.

Manuel said his plea to Shaik was simple: “It has taken 96 years of the most unimaginable toil and sacrifice to build the ANC into this formidable movement. It could be destroyed in [...]

Zuma vs. is the ANC?

Things are heating up within the ANC, creating a sort of internal two party system within South Africa’s only viable political party. At the beginning of the ANC election conference Jacob Zuma’s supporters set the tone by heckling the opposition, here.
This story has many interesting sides. Will the ANC implode? Does Mbeki deserve to have [...]