South Africa's next leader?
If so, the country could be in a world of hurt. Jacob Zuma sounds to me like he could very well be Robert Mugabe made over.
Despite some very real problems in South Africa, the country has fared better than one might reasonably have expected in recent years, thanks in no small part to Mr. Nelson Mandela. South Africa dodged another bullet in 1999 when Mandela was succeeded by Thabo Mbeki. Mbeki, while he may be stupid, is not insane, and with his Western education and his relative openness to capitalism, he has managed to hold things together admirably for the most part.
I'm really starting to wonder, however, whether the party might soon be over. I've long wanted to take a vacation to South Africa, but I've kept postponing it until the situation there "stabilizes" a bit more. Perhaps I should actually consider pushing it forward instead.
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I know some people who lived in South Africa. After the blacks took over, when they were leaving the suburbs for work, burglers and rapists would be flooding in to even the score against Whitey.
They finally all left.
Posted by: Bailey Hankins | December 1, 2005 11:38 PM