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AFRICANEWSWIRE.NET (January, 12 2012)
Zuma’s clean hands
AFTER a traditional healer had called on the spirits of the ancestors to join present members of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) in celebrating the movement’s foundation in Bloemfontein 100 years ago on January 9th, it was the turn of the Reverend Jesse Jackson to call on his Christian god to bless the proceedings. The 50,000-strong crowd packed into the town’s rugby stadium roared with delight as the American civil-rights leader strode to the podium and declared “Happy Birthday to the new South Africa!” Few of the fans seemed to notice, let alone oppose, the conflation of party and state.Indeed, the line between them, since the ANC swept to power in the country’s first multiracial elections in 1994, has been increasingly blurred. Turning a national liberation movement into just one in an array of competing political parties was never going to be easy. For the ANC, with no experience of running a sophisticated country, the task was made harder by its inheritance of a battered economy and a racist and often corrupt state whose resources had grossly...
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