Comments on: Zuma: The good http://mhambi.com/2009/04/zuma-the-good/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=zuma-the-good A re-deployed blog with views on Azania* Thu, 10 May 2012 21:13:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Dave A http://mhambi.com/2009/04/zuma-the-good/comment-page-1/#comment-407 Dave A Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:44:57 +0000 http://mhambi.com/?p=106#comment-407 "Many - like me - chose to ignore the worst signs and hope for the best. Most well-todo South Africans were still ignoring the signs right trough to 2005. This was madness." Count me among those fools too. It really shows you can never let your guard down, although at that point I'm not sure there was enough evidence to garner any real support. Maybe things need to get worse before we get the resolve to make them better? Certainly, as you suggest, the whole JZ affair seems to bring mixed blessings. “Many – like me – chose to ignore the worst signs and hope for the best. Most well-todo South Africans were still ignoring the signs right trough to 2005.

This was madness.”

Count me among those fools too. It really shows you can never let your guard down, although at that point I’m not sure there was enough evidence to garner any real support. Maybe things need to get worse before we get the resolve to make them better?

Certainly, as you suggest, the whole JZ affair seems to bring mixed blessings.

]]> By: Michael Graaf http://mhambi.com/2009/04/zuma-the-good/comment-page-1/#comment-404 Michael Graaf Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:09:22 +0000 http://mhambi.com/?p=106#comment-404 You are right that the "Zuma revolution" was a much-needed response to Mbeki's crypto-Stalinism. But you are wrong in ascribing the revolution to Zuma's "balls and power". Ordinary ANC members at branch level resented the centralised control of candidate lists etc. exercised under Mbeki, and over the last few years rebelled, some at the cost of their lives. That's what I call balls (including the internal ones known as ovaries). Zuma's power in confronting Mbeki was actually the delegated power of ordinary members. Alas I fear they have fallen into the trap of "my enemy's enemy is my friend". Their hero has feet of clay. You are right that the “Zuma revolution” was a much-needed response to Mbeki’s crypto-Stalinism. But you are wrong in ascribing the revolution to Zuma’s “balls and power”.

Ordinary ANC members at branch level resented the centralised control of candidate lists etc. exercised under Mbeki, and over the last few years rebelled, some at the cost of their lives. That’s what I call balls (including the internal ones known as ovaries).

Zuma’s power in confronting Mbeki was actually the delegated power of ordinary members. Alas I fear they have fallen into the trap of “my enemy’s enemy is my friend”. Their hero has feet of clay.

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