Mark Gevisser Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. 1964
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.
source: "South Africa: beyond a one-party state" by Mark Gevisser, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2009. 
topic: Party, Zuma, President, Mugabe
