klipgeit
04-26-2009, 12:58 PM
Nelson Mandela had a great opportunity this week to deliver a powerful rebuke to the African National Congress for its totalitarian impulses and its endemic corruption.
Yet just 15 years after he gloriously led his party to victory in South Africa’s first democratic election, the great man chose to sit on a platform at a stadium rally between his former wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela - who has convictions for fraud, theft and assisting a kidnapping - and Jacob Zuma, the ANC leader whose own past is mired in allegations of sleaze and corruption.
http://www.zasucks.com/?p=2669
Yet just 15 years after he gloriously led his party to victory in South Africa’s first democratic election, the great man chose to sit on a platform at a stadium rally between his former wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela - who has convictions for fraud, theft and assisting a kidnapping - and Jacob Zuma, the ANC leader whose own past is mired in allegations of sleaze and corruption.
http://www.zasucks.com/?p=2669