A fresh insight into the murky political sphere that is Southern African politics, focusing on South Africa and its links with its neighbours. This blog will aim to give a fresh insight into this unique political stage and to unmask the nuances surrounding it.
Friday, 7 December 2012
Zuma in rare interview with British press
In a rare interview with the British newspaper the Daily
Telegraph, Jacob Zuma commented that South Africa would not mount a
Zimbabwe-style takeover of the white-owned economy, dismissing all talk of nationalisation
being a cure to the nation’s “gaping
inequalities”. Zuma seemed very composed throughout and came across very
much as someone with the ANC’s best interests at heart, not just his own -
signified in the comment that “once the
ANC says this is what we want you to do,
I will do it”. He also touched briefly on the matter of Malema, stating
that it was not a pressing issue, as Malema is no longer part of the ANC. Zuma
praised Cyril Ramaphosa as a politician and recalled perhaps happier, or at
least more stress-free, days when he was a deputy to the union leader...
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