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WHAT OTHERS SAY: Party chief Zuma, his merry wives, and a racist brother

Nationmedia.com "THERE IS OLD SCHOOL, there’s the African Big Man... and then there’s Comrade Jacob Gedleyihiekisa Zuma, who last week won the presidency of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC).
The boisterous and populist leader’s reputation took a beating last year when he was charged with raping an HIV positive family friend. He was acquitted.
Having wrested the leadership of the ANC from Thabo Mbeki, unless he is convicted of corruption given that fresh charges are being brought against him, Zuma is all but assured of becoming South Africa’s president in 2009."

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