Analysis: South Africa’s Zuma on track for second term

April 24th, 2012 - 

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma is the favorite to win a second term to lead the ruling ANC in a race dominated by factional politics instead of policy reforms for Africa’s most powerful economy. More than a dozen insiders in the ruling African National Congress told Reuters that Zuma had the race in hand even though there are strong factions in the party who want him out and could make things difficult. “It’s Zuma’s race to lose,” said one senior ANC member

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Analysis: South Africa’s Zuma on track for second term

Hitting the trail with elite runner Zola Budd

April 23rd, 2012 - 

GROENKLOOF NATURE RESERVE, South Africa (Reuters) – My running partner has generously conceded to my pace and it’s not because of the warmth of the African sun on a glorious autumn day.

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Hitting the trail with elite runner Zola Budd

South African President Zuma marries for sixth time

April 20th, 2012 - 

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s polygamous President Jacob Zuma married for the sixth time on Friday, taking his long-time girlfriend Bongi Ngema as his newest bride and fourth current wife in a private ceremony at his rural home. Ngema, an activist and former information technology worker, is well known in South Africa and has already accompanied the president on foreign visits

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1st students graduate from Winfrey school (AP)

January 14th, 2012 - 

AP – Johnson Mncube remembers the first day at Oprah Winfrey’s boarding school for underprivileged South African girls, when 11- and 12-year-olds were crying at the thought of being separated from their families, and he said he almost wanted to put his own daughter in his pocket and take her home.

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