The One and only Jacob Zuma, devoted father of 19 children, pats himself on the back for a job well done

"I have never failed to learn from my mistakes, nor repeat them, nor pretend I never committed them in the first place."

SHOOT: Intwisting.

clipped from news.yahoo.com For the first time, the ANC biography confirmed that Zuma has three wives — Sizakele, Nompumelelo and Tobeka Madiba — and 19 children "to whom he is very close." Zuma is a traditionalist member of the Zulu tribe, which allows men to have more than one wife. He has also had two other wives — Kate Mantsho Zuma, who committed suicide in 2000, and Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, from whom he was divorced in 1998. "I have never failed to learn from my mistakes, nor repeat them, nor pretend I never committed them in the first place," he writes. "I am made of sterner stuff, even if I say so myself. I am tempted to say I know no man alive who has witnessed the struggles that I have survived. They may have come close but not what I have gone through."