Your president calling on you....

[Dave A]

you don't get a position like that if you are a buffoon. Also been reelected for a second term the ANC should be able to see through him if he is that bad. So what am I as a whitey missing about our President

I reckon JZ has many, many wonderful attributes.
It's his flaws that attract the concern and criticism.

Now we're all human, and we all have strengths and weaknesses. So I hope we don't demand perfection of any leader in any position.

Normally we should be following a leader because of his or her strengths, and accept their weaknesses as the price of being the beneficiary of those strengths. But some flaws are pure poison that contaminate the bearer and everything around them. And intentional, concious abuse of infuence is certainly one of them.

The more influence you have, the greater the responsibility to use it... responsibly.

JZ certainly has no qualms about using his influence, and he has plenty of it.
Much of it is for the good of SA.
Some of it is absolutely harmful.

[Blurock]

The more influence you have, the greater the responsibility to use it... responsibly.

JZ certainly has no qualms about using his influence, and he has plenty of it.
Much of it is for the good of SA.
Some of it is absolutely harmful.

Like when you pay R500, 000 to sit at his table at a conference - you are guaranteed to get some tenders or something in return. Cross him and you are history, like Malema.

[IanF]

So JZ is not stupid but he is enriching himself at South Africa's expense. Now he has been reelected as ANC president and is going quash any investigation into corruption between him and Shaik.
What amazes me that this is acceptable to the ANC members, he must know how to manipulate politics very well.
Where is this going to leave SA?

[adrianh]

There is more to it. JZ is a very very clever old dog. Do you think he has 6 wives and 23 children because he likes to shag - to a degree yes but there is a more strategic reason. Just think about the influence he gained by marrying into those families and creating heirs in those families. Kingdoms used to join forces in the olden days by princes marrying princesses of foreign kingdoms. He did the same, he created and empire of connections by marrying into those families. He has a network of family member who are put in the correct places, like chess pieces, to keep the family in real power...even without the ANC. Nobody says anything in the ANC because he controls the important pieces on the chessboard.

JZ could be considered as the internet of South Africa and his choppper is the Master Router....

[Blurock]

JZ could be considered as the internet of South Africa and his choppper is the Master Router....

...or the mouse?

[wynn]

So what am I as a whitey missing about our President

You as a whitey or non ANC member are not told to listen to what he says with the threat of having your ears cut off if you don't

[wynn]

Is this what JZ thinks of himself?

[Blurock]

So Malema is history, the ANCYL management is history, the Limpopo leadership is history. They have all crossed Zuma. The big purge has begun. Who is next?

[IanF]

Will our President try for a third term?
Is the third term not what got Mbeki fired?
More serious question is who is next? Vavi.

[Blurock]

The mudslinging and accusations against Vavi has already started...