The continent’s third pillar, South Africa, will spend 2008 mired in an escalating political feud between Thabo Mbeki, the lame-duck president, and Jacob Zuma, a former deputy who is the newly elected leader of the ruling African National Congress and the leading candidate to succeed Mbeki, his bitter rival, next year.
El tercer pilar del continente, Sudáfrica, pasará 2008 atrapado en una disputa política en aumento entre Thabo Mbeki, el presidente saliente, y Jacob Zuma, ex Vicepresidente y dirigente recién elegido del gobernante Congreso Nacional Africano y candidato principal a la sucesión de Mbeki, su irreconciliable rival, el año que viene.