A South Africa Beyond Zuma – Do a Merkel and Take a Long View
At the weekend, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was in campaigning mode. As she swilled beer with locals in Munich, Merkel said pointedly, “The days when Europe could rely on others… to a large extent were over. This is what I have experienced in the last few days. Europe must really take our fate into our […]
Zuma Pays Back Public Money Spent On Luxury Home Upgrades
South African President Zuma has finally paid back around 500,000 euros ($542,000) of public money spent on refurbishing his private home. The controversy that dominated his second term in office raged on for five years. South Africa’s highest court had decided earlier in the year that President Jacob Zuma had violated the country’s constitution by […]
Jacob Zuma’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
Friday couldn’t arrive soon enough for South African President Jacob Zuma.When Zuma, 73, climbed out of bed Thursday morning he must have felt like the boy in Judith Viorst’s classic picture book, “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.” It might qualify as the worst day of his troubled, seven-year presidency. The […]
