Extrovert: President Jacob Zuma used more than £27 million of state funding to build a huge palace (Picture: Reuters)
In South Africa, The Reality Is Debt And Corruption -- R.W. Johnson, London Evening Standard
As we bid farewell to Nelson Mandela, his successors in the ANC have failed to govern a complex country
Nelson Mandela used to joke that if he got to heaven his first move would be to join the local branch of the African National Congress there. For he was a devoted party man: the ANC was his life. It is perhaps just as well that he is no longer here to see what his party has become.
His immediate successor, Thabo Mbeki, was a clever, paranoid and unbalanced man who refused to allow HIV/Aids sufferers to get the medicine that would save their lives. He also supported Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe. Once he stepped down from office, Mbeki was shunned by the international community. His successor, Jacob Zuma, is a genial but uneducated man (he learned to read and write only when in jail) who is quite at sea when dealing with the sort of problems that are regularly thrown up by a complex and diverse society such as South Africa.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
As Mandela is remembered, a moment of praise for F.W. de Klerk -- Barbara McDougall, The Globe and Mail
Mandela and De Klerk: Essential partners -- Princeton N. Lyman, Reuters
Is the Peace Process Falling Apart Already? Kerry may be backing away from a "final status" agreement -- John B. Judis, New Republic
Turkey: ‘Surreal, Menacing…Pompous’ -- Christopher de Bellaigue, New York Review Of Books
Kerry May Play by the Rules; Iran Won’t -- Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary
North Korea: wicked uncle -- The Guardian editorial
Relax, Afghanistan Isn’t Going to Collapse -- Robert Farley, The Diplomat
Smog Wars: China's Pollution in the Spotlight -- Tyler Roney, The Diplomat
Biden and Hagel Appease China at Allies' Expense -- Michael Mazza, National Interest
Ukraine’s Next Great Hope? Could Vitali Klitschko Lead Ukraine? -- Gordon Marino, New York Times
Putin's Latest Hunting Trip -- Edward Lucas, Wall Street Journal
The Budget Deal and Defense -- Max Boot, Commentary
Cold wars: why Canada wants to claim the North Pole -- Katie Drummond, The Verge
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