Rsa Politics: New Anc Leader

[werner-ghost]

I don't know how many other South Africans are on the Newgrounds forums or how many people know anything about South African Politics, but the ANC is choosing their new leader. Most South Africans will tell you that the person who becomes the leader of the ANC will become the president. There are currently only two candidates.
Thabo Mbeki
Jacob Zuma
According to the constitution Mbeki can't serve a 3rd term, although he's still in consideration. I don't get this.
Jacob Zuma is a very expressive person and he's had some serious criminal allegations against him. What do you guys think about this?

[HPX5000]

I don't know much about South African politics but it seems to me that South Africa has a de facto one-party system and the ANC has become corrupt after apartheid. So whoever becomes the leader will probably become the president.

[Empanado]

A quick skimming through wikipedia reveals this line:

"Unlike many world leaders, Mbeki appears to be at ease with the Internet"

I don't know why, but that made me laugh my ass off. I say vote for the Internet guy.

In all seriousness though, and again only by a shallow fast read of their wiki pages, Mbeki seems like a better choice than this Zuma guy. Even though neither of them strikes me as a perfect candidate (Mbeki strikes me as being too lenient on crime and on his foreign policy, specially relating to that Mugabe fellow; Zuma , well, he just gives the impression of being one sneaky bastard), Mbeki has done a decent enough job and, if there's truly nobody else who's a strong candidate, I guess it's better to go for him than some random guy who could make all the progress made in the last few years go to the shitter.
And re-election limits aren't too hard to get past by, he could call a referendum to modify the constitution, like Hugo Chávez tried to do (and since he apparently doesn't garner as much rejection as Chávez does, he could succeed), or he could choose a "puppet candidate" or some other shenanigans, like, I don't know, hving his wife run instead of him.