Let's make light of this...Zuma
On this week's cover of Drum we have Zuma on the front cover and his daughter with her arms around his neck and both are smiling at the camera. The headline goes something like this, "Daddy's hip-hop star". This month Zuma was found 'not guilty' at his rape trial and South Africans across the board were devided on the outcome. Some believed that he was guilty while others believe that he was framed and it was all a ploy to make sure that he would not succeed as South Africa's new president. Xhosas are quite strong in politics in this country and Zuma is Zulu and many feel that the Xhosas are trying to make sure that a Zulu, or any other group, never gets to be president of the country. Whether Zuma is guilty or not, is irrelevant here. What I feel this article puts forth is that a political leader who has no ethics and morals in staying true to his wife and family by refraining from any intimate relationships reserved for a spouse, with any other individual, and a politcal leader who has perpertuated a myth (that if you shower after sex you minimise contracting HIV) and endangering his wife's life by having sex with an HIV positive woman, should be celebrated and seen as a national hero. Zuma pulled a 'cultural' card in the trial by saying that in the Zulu culture, if a man is to lie with a woman he must go the whole 9 yards, he cannot stop before they actually do the deed and say he is not interested anymore. I'm am pretty sure that in the Zulu culture, it is also improper to lie with a woman that you are not married to...so I'm not sure what his point was in that regard. It is sad to see that a man who cannot be devout to his family, the thing that should be of a singular importance to a human being, is celebrated and is seen as a hero and is accepted by many to be a 'good' leader. If he cannot stay true in the home, how can he be true to the nation. A friend said something very important on this subject, she said that if Bill Clinton got into so much trouble for immorality at the oval office, how can Zuma be celebrated when he was accused of rape, cheated on his wife in his home where his daughter was just a couple of rooms down the hall, a man of no moral fibre who gives integrity no currency, be seen as a national hero?
posted by Sipetile @ 5:01 AM
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