Hero's Welcome As Zuma Arrives

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President-in-waiting Jacob Zuma, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and former President Nelson Mandela received a hero's welcome when they arrived at the Union Buildings.

Zuma is expected to be sworn in as the fourth democratic president amid a cheering crowd, songs, ululations and whistling. "Zuma yo my president," the crowd sang.

He was accompanied by his first wife Sizakele Khumalo. Zuma hugged his erstwhile rival former president Thabo Mbeki.

Mandela received the second loudest cheers, while former deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka - who defected to the ANC breakaway party COPE - was booed.

There was a mixed reaction of faint booing and cheering at the arrival of Mbeki, who was fired eight months ago by Zuma's ANC.

This is the second time that South Africans applauded the presence of Mugabe at a presidential inauguration as he has received the same reception during Mbeki's second inauguration.

The frail-looking Mandela - clad in black overcoat - walked holding his wife Graca Machel's hand. Mandela's former wife - Winnie - also arrived behind him.

The crowd sang "Nelson Mandela, there is no one like you".

Outgoing president Kgalema Motlanthe arrived alone, and greeted the saluting security generals hours before handing over his reigns as commander in chief of all armed forces.
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Garyvdh said:
that line says it all.
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*sigh* Shows how intelligence aint a prerequisite when it comes to mass appeal. George W Bush, Hitler etc. All you gotta do is speak a language that pleases the majority...

Democracy? Sad FAIL
 
HypoThesis said:
*sigh* Shows how intelligence aint a prerequisite when it comes to mass appeal. George W Bush, Hitler etc. All you gotta do is speak a language that pleases the majority...

Democracy? Sad FAIL
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Why do you say that?Do you believe the elections were not fair?
 
HypoThesis said:
All you gotta do is speak a language that pleases the majority...
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And the WC?Democracy failing?

blunomore said:
But ... I like 'Brother Leader' Gaddafi. He's always good for a laugh :D

I recently read that his son wanted to be included in the country's national soccer team and when he did not make, he promptly killed the coach :eek:
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Gaddafi is always a good source of lulz.:D
But killing the coach!:confused::mad:
 
theratman said:
Why do you say that?Do you believe the elections were not fair?
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No, not saying that. Our elections were 100% spot on. Am just saying as a concept democracy is nice...similarly on paper communism is lovely.
 
I thought someone would of voted from the rooftops today, would of been a good time to :rolleyes:


I'm just playing :D
 
HypoThesis said:
No, not saying that. Our elections were 100% spot on. Am just saying as a concept democracy is nice...similarly on paper communism is lovely.
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I see your point now.The op was a bit vague for my shallow mind :D

"Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others"
Winston Churchill
:D

blunomore said:
I was googling this and came across other, more shocking reports !!

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/15/w...ce/Times Topics/People/Q/Qaddafi, Muammar El-

OK, this family means business!
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WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
A Democracy has never worked in countries where the mass of the voters are uneducated/ill-educated

Never underestimate the power of mass stupidity
 
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South Africa's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, promoted a "Rainbow Nation"; his successor Thabo Mbeki an "African Renaissance"; so what will be the overarching vision of a Jacob Zuma presidency?

He has not yet outlined one, but the initial signs are that Mr Zuma will promote a new conservatism in South Africa, digging deep into the nation's cultural and religious roots and threatening Western-styled liberal values enshrined in the constitution.

Mr Zuma's supporters showed these traits throughout his long and bitterly fought presidential campaign, offering prayers to ancestors, denouncing same-sex marriage as a "disgrace to God", promising a referendum on the death penalty, condemning political rivals as "witches" and "snakes", and defending polygamy as "African".

Of all the white groups in South Africa, it is only the Afrikaners that are truly South African - Jacob Zuma

For Mr Zuma's critics, he has mixed a deadly cocktail of religion, politics and ethnicity to quench his thirst for power.

"The genie is out. He won't be able to put it back," one critic said.

"Mbeki declared this to be the African century, but we now risk going backwards."

Without singling out anyone for criticism, a stalwart of the governing African National Congress (ANC), Zola Skweyiya, expressed a similar concern in the run-up to the party's conference in 2007.

"The demon of tribalism is rising from every corner and we ignore it at our peril," Mr Skweyiya wrote in Johannesburg's Mail & Guardian newspaper.

"We thought we would not go through what the rest of Africa has gone through, but we are just another African country. There is nothing special about us."
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link

Interesting read
 
Ricard said:
A Democracy has never worked in countries where the mass of the voters are uneducated/ill-educated

Never underestimate the power of mass stupidity
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I get your point and I tend to agree with you a bit on principle. But what form of gorvenment do you propose for this country? And how should a president be elected? Should only taxpayers be allowed to vote? Should only people who have access to the internet be allowed to vote since they are more likely to be educated?
 
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