Would we vote for a man with the following biodata?

Zuma and crony


Name: Jacob Zuma
Position: President ANC

Wildly Popular in His Country. Could Be the Next South African president.

Wives
Jacob Zuma is a self-proclaimed polygamist and has been married at least four times.

1. Sizakele Khumalo, whom he met in 1959. She lives at his home at Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal. They have no children.
2. Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, with whom he had four children, but from whom he is divorced.
3. Kate, with whom he had five children. She committed suicide on December 8, 2000.
4. Mantuli Zuma married Mr. Zuma five years ago. She has a five-year old daughter and a seven-month-old son with him.
5. Nompumelelo Ntuli, the mother of two of his children, married on January 8, 2008. Ntuli, born 1975, is a resident of KwaMaphumulo near Stanger and has two children with Zuma -- Thandisiwe, born 2002, and Sinqobile, born February 2006.

Fiancées

1. Zuma paid lobola to the clan of Thobeka Stacy Mabhija, 35, with whom he has two children. The second is three months old. Ms. Mabhija works at a mobile phone company.
2. Zuma paid 10 cattle as lobola for Swazi Princess Sebentile Dlamini in 2002.
   
3. Lobola has been paid for Bongi Ngema, with whom he has a 3-year-old son
4. He reportedly has 18 children, including one resulting from an affair with Minah Shongwe, sister of Judge Jeremiah Shongwe, who asked to be recused from Mr. Zuma’s rape trial because of the liaison. She has a son, Edward, 30, with Mr. Zuma.

Charged for Rape .......

On the morning of December 6, 2005, rape charges against Zuma were formally filed. He vehemently denied the charges, and affirmed his political commitment to oppose sexual violence. The accuser, the young daughter of a deceased friend of Zuma's from during the years of the struggle against apartheid, was known by Zuma to be HIV positive.

On May 8, 2006, the Court dismissed the charges, agreeing that the sexual act in question was consensual. During the trial, Zuma admitted to having unprotected sex with his accuser but claimed that he took a shower afterwards to "cut the risk of contracting HIV". Zuma at the time headed the National AIDS Council. This statement has been condemned by the judge, health experts, AIDS activists as well as ridiculed by the public in general. The popular South African comic strip, Madam & Eve, and well known political cartoonist, Zapiro, have repeatedly lampooned the matter.

Charged for Corruption .......

On 28 December 2007, the Scorpions served Zuma an indictment to stand trial in the High Court on various counts of racketeering, money laundering, corruption and fraud. Zuma's appears in court on 4 August 2008. The charges are believed to be linked to the $5bn arms procurement deal by the South African government in 1999.

Can You see any similarities any where?… read on.

With the ANC President Jacob Zuma's corruption trial having resumed at the Pietermaritzburg on Monday, the party has voiced its undying support for their leader. Zuma, through his legal team, is to ask the court to drop his prosecution on fraud, corruption, money-laundering and tax-evasion charges.

Against all odds, it is evident, the party is behind their leader, supporting his "conspiracy" allegation against the state.

Ahead of the trial, the ANC Youth League has ratcheted up its rhetoric, slamming Zuma's prosecution as a "grave political injustice" and saying "no stone must be left unturned in his defence".

By Fundile Majola http://www.iol.co.za