Obama released the first volume in a memoir series about his time as president of America, from 2009 to 2017, on Tuesday. The book,In the book, Obama reflects on several major world leaders, with Zuma and the ANC mentioned.
He also touches on his trip to SA before becoming president, when he visited Robben Island and later met an energetic Tutu. "South Africa at the time [2009] was in a transition, with interim president Kgalema Motlanthe soon to be replaced by Jacob Zuma, the leader of Nelson Mandela’s party, the African National Congress, which controlled the country’s parliament."
"In subsequent meetings, Zuma struck me as amiable enough. He spoke eloquently of the need for fair trade, human development, infrastructure and more equitable distributions of wealth and opportunity on the African continent." Obama later spoke about crashing a Brics meeting on climate change where Zuma and Brazil's former president Lula da Silva"looked sheepishly down at the papers in front of them" while he spoke."By all accounts, though, much of the goodwill built up through Mandela’s heroic struggle was being squandered by corruption and incompetence under ANC leadership, leaving large swathes of the country’s black population still mired in poverty and despair.
I will have to get this book it might have some juice.
Barack was overatted
Including Jacob ZumaThen all of this is just corruption, seriously I don't think know what we are going through right now in South Africa
He gave rotten chickens lo
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