Protest against 'shameful' Zuma

<p><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color:#990000;">SA president Jacob Zuma faces angry protest</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#990000;">South African President Jacob Zuma has been met by protesters in London chanting "shame on you" on the last day of his state visit to Britain.</span></strong><br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwLOghhum7H8ssn6ccpApbfCkI3d1hIq1BWUZOtslwfqRtmKNRl1wiFQK9lO0gyQsk_ft4HWLN8QguJcy5TQ30Zbl5O4cas0NIlqw443JV7dIabQmwtenNQqJ8h1XeiZy3PH8AJMI_JcO9/s1600-h/zuma-save-zim.jpg"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGETl3GSxBZx8Kyowmzy1FzMAiWmyrBlTiJWYNriQXEcjlMkXGB3-05YSMaYbNjBU_JmUUxONCWEAil39CbCZJGf1Yw3IrZfV-wqkxaMMKb96UdTQcjlHuBdMuECNnPrjWe7866PSZuGbz/s1600-h/SAHouseLondonSmall.jpg"><span style="font-size:130%;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445236380257475986" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGETl3GSxBZx8Kyowmzy1FzMAiWmyrBlTiJWYNriQXEcjlMkXGB3-05YSMaYbNjBU_JmUUxONCWEAil39CbCZJGf1Yw3IrZfV-wqkxaMMKb96UdTQcjlHuBdMuECNnPrjWe7866PSZuGbz/s400/SAHouseLondonSmall.jpg" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 318px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 238px" /></span></a><span style="font-size:130%;">Earlier, the leader sparked anger over calls for international sanctions on Zimbabwe to be eased.<br /><br />About 50 people gathered outside the South African High Commission, waving banners saying "Zuma save Zimbabwe".<br /><br />In response, President Zuma walked up a red carpet at South Africa House before turning and waving to demonstrators.<br /><br />Earlier on Friday, he held talks with Prince Charles at Clarence House on climate change, youth opportunities and the built environment.<br /><br />'Another wife'<br /><br />During his three-day state visit, the leader suggested sanctions should be eased to help Zimbabwe "move forward".<br /><br />But campaigners accused him of appeasing Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and believe he should be doing more to ensure fresh elections are called in the country.<br /><br />Gordon Brown has said Zimbabwe must show progress in key areas including democratic reforms before sanctions are lifted.<br /><br />At the protest, one man wearing a Mugabe mask held aloft a sign saying "Zuma - have another wife on me".<br /><br />The 67-year-old leader is a polygamist - following a Zulu tradition - and has taken a third wife.<br /><br />Rose Benton, co-ordinator of a weekly demonstration outside the Zimbabwean embassy, said: "The government of national unity isn't going to work, Mugabe isn't serious about making it work - he never has been.<br /><br />"What we need is Zuma to do something, " she said.<br /><br />This has been the third state visit to Britain by a South African president since the advent of full democracy in 1994.<br /><br />Nelson Mandela came to the UK in 1996 and Thabo Mbeki in 2001.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"></span><br /><a class="DL-external" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/uk/8552084.stm" jquery1267817262312="3" title="Read the full text of Protest against 'shameful' Zuma from BBC News"><em><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Full Article at BBC News</span></em></a><em><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Related </span><br /></span></em><a href="http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?z2601767308&z=950245066"><em><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">The Independent</span></em></a><em><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"> Protesters challenge Jacob Zuma over Mugabe</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"></span></em><p>

Protest against 'shameful' Zuma

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Chess set sure rooks familiar

<p><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color:#990000;">SOUTH African president Jacob Zuma presented the Queen with a chess set yesterday - only to discover it was almost identical to a gift from Nelson Mandela.</span></strong><br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444923570854599618" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf8RMBqs_TM4yVqdOIwukS5X3pIgfdI3KnKzLCHjOhrGdt4rG41FQrT1la7VztRqFEK7J6I3n0iQDhvVdwMT2ZMwW1ZiIM2Otqbo4ecAg5AfO4pNFFkwwofmDS30aMBT4YGj-Qd2R6QMyJ/s400/zuma-gift-to-queen.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 262px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" />President Zuma, who is on a state visit, beamed with pride as he handed over his game board with glass and pewter warrior pieces.<br /><br /><p>But then he looked across the room at Buckingham Palace and spotted the matching set with painted ceramic warrior figures.<br /><br />His predecessor Mr Mandela had given Prince Philip the game on a visit 14 years ago.<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445239768806736386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_zLJs5Ucu24kNYxg99SX-WLnQjCJn7pJxXkorpn7ATHVl6AZuIoXapFIUw9s39YkGud5xRbYMROSdcqtp04qmq3h818GCrmMwYxYGDHaInmSCll4utXf_B5YfhyjMp0siDZvnXP7r5x9I/s400/zuma-chess.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 267px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" />A startled President Zuma said: "Oh, another set." The Queen then picked up some of the pieces to give him a closer look.<br /><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color:#000099;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim9k1lsb3Qh9GO9supMuUHPb_ZocQoheCa1Ur2Ef7_DT4DyrMV-WJ8b37zWJoG_ubmxBX2nXJyK4HLRPvVbbSKJuHbUCi1rq_xcwuKZhve-wfJBLeTmmaqjhjd1Pa_OggiHCYP4gO1ik8I/s1600-h/zuma-chess.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444922929468596130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim9k1lsb3Qh9GO9supMuUHPb_ZocQoheCa1Ur2Ef7_DT4DyrMV-WJ8b37zWJoG_ubmxBX2nXJyK4HLRPvVbbSKJuHbUCi1rq_xcwuKZhve-wfJBLeTmmaqjhjd1Pa_OggiHCYP4gO1ik8I/s400/zuma-chess.jpg" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 289px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" /></a>The Queen and Jacob Zuma take a close look at the chess set he presented her - without realising it was the second one she had received</span><br /></span></em><br />Also there to meet the president were PM Gordon Brown, Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Home Secretary Alan Johnson.<br /><br />They were all smiles, despite Downing Street earlier declining to comment on reports President Zuma had accused the British of looking down on South Africans.<br /><br />The 67-year-old leader told a South African paper: "When the British came to our country they said everything we did was barbaric, was wrong, inferior.<br /><br />"And I don't know why they are continuing thinking their culture is more superior than others."<br /><br />The timing of the attack, on the eve of President Zuma's visit, is thought to have been sparked by criticism of his private life.<br /><br />President Zuma is wed to three women in a polygamous marriage.<br /><br />He has also claimed taking a shower after sex would protect him from Aids - and enjoyed supporters singing a campaign anthem entitled Bring Me My Machine Gun.<br /></span><br /><em><a href="mailto:j.clench@the-sun.co.uk">j.clench@the-sun.co.uk</a><br /></em></span></p><p></p>

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The day polygamist president Jacob Zuma dined with the 'old fashioned imperialists'

<p><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color:#990000;">As a polygamist who has fathered more than 20 children, both in and out of wedlock, he was always going to cause a stir on his inaugural state visit.</span></strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Jacob Zuma added fuel to the fire yesterday by branding the British as old fashioned imperialists - only hours before he was officially greeted by the Queen.</p><p><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444895946845194514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0zTmUf7_6k9ke0hIx80MRH0clW-59OCKLaM6vfAwOnirkDSPFbsni_h2yscjhlTNKlveNvVR2lXq3jzItXWpazB5LBz_Y7xUVGfFEgG5wM0q8AzldHH8OPV0l7cdiMOBTf8Ed-sFpwG_W/s400/zuma-royals.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 304px; CURSOR: hand" /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444900439145515394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjiS_dzT30xBh4wmP35pai8wf84gCFu906_aTgeZV2w3L7PmVvj59PTHgvF4wPVoHs5ME4ijOA1sgJ-g3a9ZH-rCFQVaB8aduYi6SyMFTyHUD2KiqL3nP_Vn6Y6Omh-xKMs-jylOjveyl4/s400/zuma-queen-joke.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 288px; CURSOR: hand" />The South African president has apparently been angered by his host country's 'obsession' with his colourful life.<br /><br />It includes five wives, a love child with the daughter of one of his political allies, a criminal trial for the alleged rape of an HIV positive woman and corruption charges. </span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><br /><br />In an interview yesterday, the 67-year-old politician, who was cleared of rape and fought off the corruption charges, insisted he had been unfairly portrayed and described himself as a 'freedom fighter' who was being attacked by 'colonial' bigots.<br /><br />'When the British came to our country they said everything we did was barbaric, was wrong, inferior in whatever way,' he said.<br /><br />'Bear in mind that I'm a freedom fighter and I fought to free myself, also for my culture to be respected. I don't know why they are continuing thinking that their culture is more superior than others, those who might have said so. I am very clear on these issues, I've not looked down upon any culture of anyone, and no one has been given an authority to judge others.<br /><br />'The British have done that before, as they colonised us, and they continue to do this, and it's an unfortunate thing.'<br /><br />His spokesman insisted that the president's comments would have no bearing on his three-day trip, saying: 'Mr Zuma is in the UK for a wide ranging programme of substantial and serious issues.<br /><br />'The comments he made were not aimed at the British public in general but at certain sections of the media which have lambasted him for what he considers to be his culture.'</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"></span></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">But his attack has caused intense diplomatic embarrassment - and wrecked his advisers' attempts to coach him about the finer points of royal etiquette.</span></span></span></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">One aide admitted they had been studying a 'long list of dos and don'ts' for weeks. But when he met the Queen and Prince Philip, Mr Zuma appeared to be on his best behaviour. Alongside newly-elected Mr Zuma was his latest wife, Thobeka Madiba Zuma, 38, with whom he has a one-year-old daughter. He only married her in January.<br /><br />There had been much debate about which of his three current wives would accompany him on the trip (of the ex-wives, he divorced one while the second committed suicide).<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0JBvODQRN0nQu7x98FHUrlEo5aS2SV8fluxyIYq5YLTwZ6Msd2jcGuJpqN1HmE3xT1MVdHVAQU9thuAWoDYJKh3a60vlbsoSyiOgIyGfP9taTDVMnmvobHX1Guv4sAgaU_93uuenLob5f/s1600-h/zuma-gold.jpg"><span style="font-size:130%;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444904205286418210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0JBvODQRN0nQu7x98FHUrlEo5aS2SV8fluxyIYq5YLTwZ6Msd2jcGuJpqN1HmE3xT1MVdHVAQU9thuAWoDYJKh3a60vlbsoSyiOgIyGfP9taTDVMnmvobHX1Guv4sAgaU_93uuenLob5f/s400/zuma-gold.jpg" style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 251px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvgUbOzqCgylb9LpiIysZug3N3fYF9xbZYOtryD0wTmvxNtxQvFXVlHHDJ9auN4HkU1vwvNuqZbZzlLPjWn4XG7bQnAIbYhjM0NVLeImALQXNe9Aq9yqqSdG4eQXIrKHQRlYBHgR_6XtQw/s1600-h/zuma-wife-gold.jpg"><span style="font-size:130%;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444894312383200674" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvgUbOzqCgylb9LpiIysZug3N3fYF9xbZYOtryD0wTmvxNtxQvFXVlHHDJ9auN4HkU1vwvNuqZbZzlLPjWn4XG7bQnAIbYhjM0NVLeImALQXNe9Aq9yqqSdG4eQXIrKHQRlYBHgR_6XtQw/s400/zuma-wife-gold.jpg" style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 199px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" /></span></a><span style="font-size:130%;">Fortunately for palace staff, he settled on just the one and the couple have been allocated the Belgian Suite in the garden wing at Buckingham Palace.<br /><br />Former bank clerk Mrs Madiba Zuma, whose generously proportioned figure strained at the seams of her gold shot- silk suit, looked overwhelmed by her surroundings, barely uttering a word as she walked with the royal party. </span></span></p><p align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">The couple were treated to a fullscale ceremonial welcome on Horseguards Parade, attended by dignitaries including Gordon Brown, who skipped Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons to attend the event. Mr Zuma greeted the royal party with an unusual double handshake before joining the Duke of Edinburgh to inspect a Guard of Honour. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444895951453486002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO-teI74XGnTnTlQKx2u8cNffNNT_gfWJH9CKc5440Ug-r0Cakl3DhOXYaIlFegfHCHycGILVZtU84vItCmPtShYhyuF6092KCam4VV0_2ASeu2bVxXI4cq785LVLSrKqWjqD33UZ7dAH5/s400/zuma-double-handshake.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 269px; CURSOR: hand" /> Mr Brown's absence from Prime Minister's Questions provoked a row.<br /><br />Usually when a state event leads to a diary clash, the Commons confrontation is moved to the afternoon.<br /><br />But Mr Brown preferred to attend a children's champion awards event hosted by the News of the World yesterday afternoon.<br /><br />His spokesman said: 'It is always the case that the head of government is at the receiving ceremony for a visiting head of state.'<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444900443463010402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8KzuujZILrKpb9EL5uuM3SXXzF8-B8vLIyzs5pthqmW7YybAq4um_D0GCFcadz46w0_DAclPOw5p-kR0Dh5r8YVFuAB8jjN2rIZJf8KOobiYDxWcszt1RtGNNsR6ubzFKHEUULQCSeB98/s400/zuma-queen.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 295px; CURSOR: hand" />Yesterday afternoon, as Mr Zuma was given a tour of Buckingham Palace by his hosts, many of his 200 plus-strong entourage also seemed ignorant of royal protocol.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">While the men wandered around the palace wearing football-style scarves in the South African colours over their suits, the women chatted noisily on their mobile phones and used them to take pictures of the furnishings.<br /><br />Last night, Mr Zuma and his wife sat down to a glittering state banquet thrown at Buckingham Palace by the Queen in their honour.<br /><br />He took a far more tactful approach in his speech at the banquet than he had done in his earlier interview.<br /><br />He thanked the British people for their support in the struggle against apartheid and paid tribute to the strong ties between both countries.</span></p><p></span><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/"><em><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk</span></em></a><em><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></em></p><p></p>

The day polygamist president Jacob Zuma dined with the 'old fashioned imperialists'

As a polygamist who has fathered more than 20 children, both in and out of wedlock, he was always going to cause a stir on his inaugural sta...

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