Reminds me of that "Dick Cheney and his colostomy bag" photo.

the World Cup should be very interesting next year.

zulu warriors wear reeboks?

I think he was also charged with rape, if I'm not mistaken.

So Zulu warriors' native dress include K-Swiss'?

GavinTheAlmighty: I think he was also charged with rape, if I'm not mistaken.

Well, that would explain the tentacles coming out of his underwear.

Skleenar: GavinTheAlmighty: I think he was also charged with rape, if I'm not mistaken.

Well, that would explain the tentacles coming out of his underwear.

+1 would read again

This is a truly interesting article. Apartheid ended, and South Africa's political climate got much worse. At least apartheid kept South Africa in the first world. Free elections seem to be dragging South Africa down to the level of the rest of Africa.

The outfit says, "I respect my rich history and the traditions that bring my people together." The shoes say, "Wal-Mart".

James Earl Jones is president of South Africa????

Well, that made for a wholly depressing read.

Any excuse for a pile-on by the master race.

I bet you guys lock the doors when a black guy passes you on the highway, stupid fu(ks.

Not this shiat again

Marla Singer's Laundry: Any excuse for a pile-on by the master race.

Someone didn't read the farking article.

Race aside, if this guy goes down the dictator path, does SA still have the practical capability to restart their nuclear weapons program?

cranberryzero: With cannot-be-unseen photo of president in native dress



Proud?

Marla Singer's Laundry: Any excuse for a pile-on by the master race.

I bet you guys lock the doors when a black guy passes you on the highway, stupid fu(ks.

Do you have, perhaps, a non-insulting and rational response to this?

Marla Singer's Laundry: Any excuse for a pile-on by the master race.

I bet you guys lock the doors when a black guy passes you on the highway, stupid fu(ks.

Marla Singer's Laundry: Perhaps, Scooter, but I did.

Read some of the comments here. "Ohhh, goody, I can post a n****er joke now!"

4/10

Zuma Zuma Guy is a meme

Marla Singer's Laundry: I bet you guys lock the doors when a black guy passes you on the highway, stupid fu(ks.

Not at all... the weapons must be loaded first.

/That chip on your shoulder is dwarfing your head btw...

South Africa returns to being just another third world shiat hole? Irony of ironies and somehow befitting.

Now that I've read Peter Hitchens' predictably unctuous blather, I might do some research on this Zuma guy and find out what he's really like. You know, just to cleanse my intellectual palate, as it were.

Marla Singer's Laundry: Any excuse for a pile-on by the master race.

I bet you guys lock the doors when a black guy passes you on the highway, stupid fu(ks.

I am black. I am from South Africa. Zuma is a farkwit.

Hitchen's article has problems - he takes cheap and unnecessary shots at the BBC (who've been following the ANC's myriad failures for a long time), and he's wrong about the elections being rigged, but he's perfectly correct to pour scorn on Zuma. The man to took a shower to protect himself from HIV, and he was the head of the government's HIV/Aids campaign.

It's terrible, it really is.

Looks like he's trying to hold back a massive totem pole...


/It's going to be a photo finish, Lois.

thenateman: This is a truly interesting article. Apartheid ended, and South Africa's political climate got much worse. At least apartheid kept South Africa in the first world. Free elections seem to be dragging South Africa down to the level of the rest of Africa.

There is textbook I had in college that would argue that this has less to do with Africa, than with the general condition of a Democracy--Specifically in that it requires the active nurturing of elites who are vested in its continuance to flourish.

Without that 'enlightened self interest' the Democracy will wither and fade.

Interesting reading, if nothing else.

Zuma?

Isn't that guy from this season's 24?

NASA was going to build another Deep Space Network station in S. Africa.

After a look at the political winds there, screw THAT noise!

Looks like that dude from Ace Ventura 2

/sha-kaka!

Romney?

DarthBrooks: NASA was going to build another Deep Space Network station in S. Africa.

After a look at the political winds there, screw THAT noise!

Maybe now they'll build it in deep space, where it belongs! ;)

ManicParroT: I am black. I am from South Africa. Zuma is a farkwit.

Unlike Hitchens, who never knows what he's talking about, you appear to know what you're talking about. I am inclined to respect your opinion.

However, I will note that subby's invocation of Mugabe is a little ironic, considering that one of the points of contention between Mbeki and Zuma has been Zuma's contention that Mbeki was too easy on Mugabe.

SlothB77: Zuma?

Isn't that guy from this season's 24?

That would be General Juma, who you might also recognize as Candyman.

What do you think of this season's 24? I like it.

South Africa needs to take a lesson from all those successful black African countries.

teh great bozack: cranberryzero: With cannot-be-unseen photo of president in native dress



Proud?

you know, after four months, you might think I wouldn't mind seeing a pic of Chief Chimp.... nope, you're wrong.

/ms paint
//in a rush

James Kunstler was just in South Africa, and also wonders how things will turn out:

There are as many political factions among the black majority as there might be in any sizable nation. Friction between them sometimes leads to violence. Corruption is not on the level of the infamous "kleptocracies" straddling the equator, but it is far from unknown. Right now, the nation awaits a national election coming up in April and the near-certainty that Jacob Zuma will be elected the new president. His ascent is widely dreaded by the white minority, who broadly regard him as a thug. This white minority appears to carry on with the "normal" tasks of daily life not unlike what you would see in Europe and North America. But close to the surface you detect a resigned fatalism. Their old center has not held and things for them could fall apart at any time. The evacuations of whites that occurred with the shift to black-majority government in the 1990s have tailed down. I'm not even sure how conscious the whites are of their own base-line nervousness, though the multi-layered apparatus of security, with all the locks, gates, and video cameras speaks for itself...The story there is hardly over. (new window)

I know little about the country, but the prognosis doesn't sound good.

I can safely say without hyperbole that this is worse than Korea, Vietnam and World War II put together.

Re: the picture
Eh the dude dressed up like a Zulu warrior for a photo op. To me this isn't much different from our politicians dressing up and posing in tanks or with footballs.

\disturbed by all the ?cat tails? on the costume though

canyoneer: James Kunstler was just in South Africa, and also wonders how things will turn out

And Kunstler is usually such an optimist, too. (rolls eyes)

TOO MANY DICKS ON THA DANCE FLOOR

elvisaintdead: zulu warriors wear reeboks?

Yeah. I would have thought they'd wear Puma or Nike.

ManicParroT:
It's terrible, it really is.

Hmm... I'm torn. At the same time, I can't trust anything the Daily Wail writes. But then again, you say you're from South Africa. Funny how a (seemingly) random guy on the internet has more credibility than Daily Mail... ;)

Anyway, I kind of wanted to visit South Africa. Haven't had the time or money yet, so my travels have been light. But hopefully I get to see it in my lifetime.

You know, it all would have been good were it not for the white tennis shoes.

Holy farking sweet mother of fark, I can farking download a free farking copy of the farking next farked up president of South farking Africa? Farking hell, farkers. (new window)