Rarely would a woman conspire with a man she has divorced, but this might be precisely what Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is doing. The relationship between Dlamini-Zuma and President Jacob Zuma is not a private matter but one of great political significance. It looks as though she is cooking up a plot with her former husband — is something else happening? They were married in 1982 when Dlamini-Zuma was 33 years old, in exile and working as a paediatrician in Swaziland. They got divorced about 16 years later, in June 1998, reportedly due to irreconcilable differences. Might these differences have included their political and moral orientations? They evidently agree on enough to act on a plan for her to become the president of the ANC, and of SA. But what is the deal between them? What have they decided and how will it be achieved? Some of this can only be gleaned through speculation and interpreting events, facial expressions and body language, given that The Taciturn One refuses all publi...
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