ANC distances itself from ANCYL - but doesn't refer to their comment to 'take militant action'

SHOOT: This is the risk you take by employing someone with a less than perfect record for the role of president. It's good to see the ANC making an apology here, but one can't help feeling there is a general sense of corruption and malaise, suspicion and bad-mouthing going on. When you have dishonesty going on and you endorse it, you have to prove (come hook or by crook) that your accuser is more guilty than you are. It becomes quite an ugly mess.

clipped from www.news24.com While the ruling party strongly objected to Zille's criticism of President Jacob Zuma's sexual conduct on Tuesday that triggered a war of words, it could not tolerate the ANCYL's outburst. Zille was quoted in the media press as saying: "Zuma is a self-confessed womaniser with deeply sexist views, who put all his wives at risk by having unprotected sex with an HIV-positive woman." The Youth League hit back: "Zille has appointed an all male Cabinet of useless people, [the] majority of whom are her boyfriends and concubines so that she can continue to sleep around with them (sic), yet she claims to have the moral authority to question our President." Said Mantashe: "Zille's statements earlier in the week about President Jacob Zuma were indeed reprehensible and, quite correctly, were roundly condemned. "She justly deserves criticism for the unrepresentative composition of her Cabinet. "But this does not justify the comments by the ANC Youth League.

The Western Cape will set an example for the whole country, for democracy in South Africa - Zille

SHOOT: Here's a bold prediction. The president after Zuma will be Zille, and the next election made be in the next year or two. Do not underestimate the power of disenchantment created by one of the worst recession's in history - and the impact of having no jobs and no money can have after you have voted for a leader who not only does not deliver but is clueless as to how to deliver.

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clipped from news.yahoo.com The ANC swept South Africa's first post-apartheid election in 1994 and the two following that. In 2004, it took 69.69 percent of the parliamentary vote. If the ANC fails to at least match that this year, it will be seen as a message from voters that they want some limits on the party. A two-thirds majority allows the ANC to enact major budgetary plans or legislation unchallenged, or to change the constitution. Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille, who has won praise for her stint as mayor of Cape Town, said ahead of the elections that her main goals were to stop the ANC's two thirds majority and to win the Western Cape. "The Western Cape will set an example for the whole country, for democracy in South Africa," she told them in an impromptu thank you speech in the airport parking lot.

Worms eye view of my vote in South Africa's election today [VIDEO]

SHOOT: I sneaked a camera into the lines to show what it felt like to be the average South African voting today. One woman thought I was trying to film her (she was standing next to my girlfriend) and said, "How revolting." Another bizarre comment: A woman was walking with her dog and I asked, "Is he going to vote too?" "His name is TOKOLOSH!" the white women said, as though I'd discriminated against her dog by not using his proper name. I witnessed the queues in Killarney and Norwood and they were VERY long. I think a lot of white voters, perhaps all of them, are trying to do what the Democratic Alliance, the official opposition is suggesting, which is STOP JACOB ZUMA.

"I expect South Africans know what to do to prevent the formation of a criminal state." - Helen Zille

Z is for...?

Machine guns, marriage, corruption charges - Zuma is the man of the hour. The amazing thing is, even people who don't want him elected are talking about him. This means he is getting the majority focus, and that - if you are not a Zuma supporter - is bad news.

The solution then - if you would prefer another candidate to lead the country - is for the maximum number of people to focus on the candidate they DO want, rather than to focus on why they DON'T want Zuma. After all, what resists persists. So who DO you want to lead the country? Focus on that candidate.

Now, Z is for...who?