PETER BRUCE: Don’t be cowed by Zuma
Dlamini-Zuma's pitch on just about every subject imaginable is identical to her ex-husband's
I was attracted by a story in City Press on Sunday on page two. “We are not voting cows”, said a very big headline that invites all sorts of punctuation playfulness. But it was about a serious matter. The person who said that was Bathabile Dlamini, president of the ANC Women’s League and our minister of social development. Dlamini was announcing (as opposed to answering a question) a new effort to put some spark into the withering campaign of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. The idea being that it was time to put an end to the notion that if you voted (as a delegate to the ANC elective conference in December) for Dlamini-Zuma you’d effectively be voting for a continuation of Jacob Zuma’s rule over the party. That notion, Dlamini suggested, was “reactionary”, which is an old ANC insult. She said women made up more than 60% of the ANC and “they want to make us their voting cows”. The story never said who “they” might but it is probably everyone opposed to the thought of Dlamini-Zuma ever becom...
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