Chris McGreal in the UK Guardian on the bling of the new leadership of South Africa’s ruling party new leadership:
Jacob Zuma crushed [Thabo Mbeki] by playing on the widespread sense of injustice among the poor, represented by ANC officials who arrived at the conference in old buses.
That Zuma himself has a very big, shiny, black Mercedes and a fat bank account, which a judge has already found to have been bolstered by bribes from a French arms company, has discouraged neither him nor his supporters.
Full article here.
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