South Africa's Leadership: Uncertain Future

South Africa is suffering a national crisis of leadership, which is steadily undermining popular confidence in the African National Congress, both as a party and a government. The presidency of Thabo Mbeki, which began in a spirit of can do optimism in 1999, has ended in abject failure and humiliation at the hands of his own party. What now for the Rainbow Nation?

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