POINT OF ORDER
TIM COHEN: Our Hillary Dlamini-Zuma is in denial too
If you had to analogise the ANC’s leadership race in terms of other presidential candidates, where would you end up? The easiest analogy would be Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as our Hillary Clinton. Like Clinton, Dlamini-Zuma seems to be the person most destined to be president yet her support — both inside and outside the party— is reluctant and based on duty more than real enthusiasm. You can almost hear people sigh when her name is mentioned. She and Clinton have vast track records within their respective political systems, but, although impressive, those track records have brought as many critics as supporters to their camps. Dlamini-Zuma was in Nelson Mandela’s cabinet, she goes back that far. Her record was attentive and, on occasion, brave. But she was also responsible for the one real example of corruption in the Mandela era; the Sarafina scandal.EU funding of R14.2m was channelled to playwright Mbongeni Ngema after he won a contract to write a play about HIV/AIDS. The matter was ...
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