South Africa

Once again Mondli Makhanya delivers with a great article about the lead-up to the current rift between the Prez. and Jay-Z. Very interesting reading and I strongly suggest you take a look for yourself, a taste :

Mbeki had used the deputy president’s office to build his profile and prove his fitness to govern, but Zuma felt he was being deprived of the means to climb to higher office.This was the seed that would germinate into the bitterness that governs the man who will appear in the Durban High Court next week. That bitterness would also feed a mood of dissent across the nation.

 

Any attempt at fully understanding the current crisis facing the ANC and the country has to take cognisance of the fact that Zuma has been on a fight-back campaign since the day he arrived in Pretoria. He believed then that he was not welcome at the Union Buildings, and went about making sure that he would defy all odds and climb to the top tier...