Mark Gevisser quotes
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“Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checked—not least by his own party, which set a continental precedent by ousting Thabo Mbeki in 2007, after it felt he had outstayed his welcome by seeking a third term as party president. The ANC appears to have set itself against that deathtrap of African democracy: the ruler for life.”
-- Mark GevisserSource : "South Africa: beyond a one-party state" by Mark Gevisser, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2009.
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“There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence, intelligence (now called 'state security' in a throwback to both apartheid and the ANC's old Stalinist past), police and communications are all die-hard Zuma loyalists. Whatever their line functions, they will also play the role they have played so ably to date: keeping Zuma out of court—and making sure the state serves Zuma as it once did Mbeki.”
-- Mark GevisserSource : "Can Zuma hold a nation together?" by Mark Gevisser, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2009.
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“What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism.”
-- Mark GevisserSource : "Can Zuma hold a nation together?" by Mark Gevisser, May 12, 2009.
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