Jacob Zuma killed the King
October 6, 2008 1 Comment
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.
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.