Zuma vittoria dimostra il suo dominio in ANC del Sud Africa

JOHANNESBURG - Sotto le luci, le accuse di corruzione e le preoccupazioni etiche finali presidente sudafricano Jacob Zuma svaniti e il politico maestro beava della sua rielezione a capo del partito di governo African National Congress, cantare sul palco, sorridendo e salutando tifo delegati.

Se può tradurre la sua vittoria partito nel rassicurare il ansioso in Sud Africa, quelli preoccupati per l'economia bandiera della nazione, criminalità violenta e la continua povertà colpisce quelli del suo partito, una volta finalizzata a liberare, tuttavia, rimane la questione.

Membri dell'ANC hanno votato in modo schiacciante Martedì a mantenere Zuma come capo del partito politico superiore in Sud Africa, more than likely guaranteeing the 70-year-old leader another five-year term as the nation’s president in the coming 2014 general elections. Opposition parties don’t receive the same support as the ANC, the party of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela that many in this nation of 50 million people vote for out of that history.

Zuma trounced Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, his only challenger who ran a largely muted and reluctant campaign, getting 2,983 votes to Motlanthe’s 991. A smiling Zuma came to the stage immediately after the announcement, waving to the cheering crowd with both hands.

“We can boast that we’re a leader of our society, that therefore we have something to contribute to the democratic life of this country, to this democratic Republic of South Africa,” Zuma ha detto nel breve discorso trasmesso in diretta televisiva dopo la sua vittoria. “Siamo certi che in questo corso nella nostra democrazia siamo corretta, che ciò che facciamo per tutto il periodo, è nell'interesse, non solo della nostra organizzazione, ma del nostro paese e della sua gente.”

Motlanthe, 63, un ex sindacalista, rifiutato di accettare qualsiasi altro post con l'ANC alla riunione di Martedì. Abbracciò Zuma per alcuni secondi dopo l'annuncio di risultati elettorali e ha parlato insieme sul palco in vista dei delegati.

Il mosto ANC “continuare ad affinare la sua capacità di sentire le grida del nostro popolo,” più tardi ha detto quelli raccolti nel corso della conferenza Mangaung, tenuto nella città chiamata anche Bloemfontein.

Al posto di Motlanthe, i delegati dell'ANC hanno votato per installare il ricco uomo d'affari Cyril Ramaphosa come vice presidente del partito. Ramaphosa is a former union leader who was the ANC’s general secretary during the constitutional negotiations that ended apartheid in 1994. He went on to found an investment empire with interests that include a power plant, McDonald’s franchises, a Coca-Cola bottler and mines. Nel mese di novembre, Forbes magazine estimated his net worth to be about $675 milioni di euro.

Ramaphosa has been a leading figure behind the scenes in the ANC, though he shuns interviews and publicly offered no comments on policy or political matters ahead of the vote.

Across the board, all six candidates associated with Zuma swept the voting early Tuesday morning by some 4,000 delegates. That ease served as a stark contrast to the run-up to the conference, which saw disrupted provincial meetings, threats and shootings of local ANC officials.

Police have a tight security presence at the conference, which began Sunday and continues through Friday. Authorities earlier arrested four white men who were charged Tuesday with treason and terrorism offenses over an alleged plot to attack the conference and kill Zuma and other leaders, though it is unclear how far along their planning was.

Zuma was the favorite heading into the conference after winning the nominations in most provincial ANC polls. He has wide support among Zulus, South Africa’s largest ethnic group, as well as from a loyal cadre of government and party officials.

But many in the public have grown disenchanted with Zuma, who former President Thabo Mbeki fired as deputy president in 2005 after he was implicated in the corruption conviction of close friend and financial adviser Schabir Shaik over a 1999 arms deal. Newspapers have written numerous articles recently about the millions of dollars of government-paid improvements made to Zuma’s private homestead. Zuma has also faced accusations, by the media, of being unable to manage his personal finances and relying on friends and colleagues to bail him out, compresi, allegedly, Mandela himself.

Zuma has also faced criticism over his sexual activity, having been put on trial on charges of raping a family friend, and acquitted, in 2006. He also once claimed that taking a shower after having sex with an HIV-positive woman would protect him from AIDS, a comment that drew widespread criticism.

He and the ANC also have been criticized for strikes that overtook the nation, particularly in the mining sector, and the handling of violence at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana in August where police shot dead 34 strikers. The Lonmin strike sparked labor unrest at other mines. Ramaphosa is a non-executive director at Lonmin, raising questions about how his wide business interests will affect the government.

After the lights fade from Mangaung, tuttavia, Zuma will find himself back in the same position he was before. South Africa’s economy remains anemic and the continent’s top economy has seen credit downgrades. Nel frattempo, the same black citizens the ANC promised to liberate find themselves crushed by the same poverty.

Fonte: AP