Better days: Zuma (left) seen here with Mandela (centre) and Mbeki during the Mandela 90th birthday ANC celebration at Loftus stadium in Pretoria, South Africa. — AFP
AS was the case with Zimbabwe three months ago, a seemingly formidable and entrenched leader has been swept aside with relative ease. The tide, as it did with Robert Mugabe, swiftly turned against Jacob Zuma, and the final blow was executed by a dramatic shift of support within the aging president’s own party.
Zuma was not cut from the same cloth as his main predecessors as president of South Africa – the fatherly statesman that was Nelson Mandela, and the scholarly technocrat Thabo Mbeki.
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