D-Day looms for Zuma

JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) is preparing for a leadership contest which could decide whether it will reinforce the pattern of Africa’s well-documented post-colonial failures or break away from a dark past into a bright future for Africa’s largest economy.

The stakes could not be higher for President Jacob Zuma – he is up for re-election at the conference in Mangaung, where the ANC was founded 100 years ago.

With the ANC’s huge majority in South Africa, whoever leads the party is virtually assured of leading the country after the 2014 elections.

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