RANJENI MUNUSAMY: Why Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has lost the plot
'Having Bathabile Dlamini and Carl Niehaus as chief campaigners is like getting Harvey Weinstein and Chris Brown to run the Miss Universe pageant'
There was a time when I thought that Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma might make a good president. It was after she shouted at me at a 2002 Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Australia, in front of several presidents and foreign ministers. Dlamini-Zuma, who was foreign minister at the time, was furious that I had reported on South Africa's desperate efforts to protect Zimbabwe from being suspended from the Commonwealth.At a cocktail party for the media and Commonwealth leaders, she raged that I had imperilled South Africa's delicate negotiations with other nations at the summit. She also said that because a South African newspaper had reported on what happened in a closed-door meeting, former president Robert Mugabe and his ministers were suspicious that the leak might have come from her delegation. It turned out that the "quiet diplomacy" policy, which former president Thabo Mbeki and Dlamini-Zuma adhered to, applied only to Zimbabwe and not to a journalist with an exclusive story. ...
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