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Jacob Zuma killed the King

Not King Goodwll Zwelethini, but Thabo Mbeki. That’s the implication from a New York Times‘ front page story by its Johannesburg correspondent, Barry Bearak. It’s that word, “regicide” in the third paragraph.

Hopefully they mean metaphorically. Does that make Kgalema Motlanthe, a caretaker king?

They also discover again that the majority of people in South Africa are poor.

Read it here.

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One Response

  1. Herman says:

    Not a great article – does not offer anything new (The Economist did white angst ‘better’ in their recent article), high on paranoid hype and low on analysis.

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