(RV - 09 May 09) South Africa’s Jacob Zuma was sworn in as his country’s president
today, capping his rise from impoverished obscurity to national pre-eminence.
The
editor of South Africa’s leading Catholic weekly, the Southern Cross Newspaper, Gunther
Simmermacher told us the 67 year-old president-elect has a moving life story, though
his person and his politics are complex and difficult to gauge.