In contrast to his two predecessors – the saintly Nelson Mandela, who emphasized racial healing, and the aristocratic Thabo Mbeki, who reassured financiers with his strong grasp of macroeconomics – Zuma recognizes the pent-up demand for material improvement in the lives of his country’s tens of millions of have-nots. “We have learned from the mistakes of the past 15 years, especially the manner of which we may have, to some degree, neglected the people’s movement,” he said in April, before his African National Congress swept to victory.
祖马和他的两位前任——强调种族愈合的品德高尚的尼尔森·曼德拉和通过对宏观经济强有力的把握打消金融家顾虑的贵族化的塔博·姆贝基——不同，他认识到了南非几千万穷人被抑制的改善物质生活条件的需求。“我们已经从过去15年的错误中，特别是从在某种程度上忽略了人民运动的错误中，吸取了教训。”他在四月份于非洲国民大会党横扫对手取得胜利之前，如是说。