Jacob Zuma

Where is the World Going?

Survivor Zuma Takes Helm as Poor Push Him on Pledges (Udpate1)

By Mike Cohen and Karl Maier

April 24 (Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s about-to-be president Jacob Zuma “has survival skills like we can hardly imagine,” says Susan Booysen, a professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

He’ll need them.

Zuma, who survived being fired as the nation’s deputy president and beat charges of rape and graft, is about to take control of Africa’s largest economy with promises to create jobs and improve health and education for the millions of poor South Africans who voted for him, as well as to woo foreign investment. With about nine-tenths of the ballots counted, his African National Congress was leading with about two-thirds of the vote.

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