Africa is a Country

The leader of South Africa’s dominant political party and the movement still electorally identified with the majority of the country’s people, is despite his dodgy ethics, remaking himself as a credible successor to Mbeki. More recently Zuma comes across as measured and “leader-like” in media interviews with non-South African, global, media. See for example his interviews with Jon Snow on Britain’s Channel 4 here and with David Frost on Al Jazeera. See here. Though everyone is not convinced, some political observers have taken note (for example, University of Cape Town political scientist Anthony Butler and London’s Independent newspaper, among others. Bring me my machine gun.