By William Beinart, Custom Contested
It may seem mischievous
to suggest that Jacob Zuma’s thinking on chiefs and traditional authority
echoes that of the infamous apartheid leader H.F. Verwoerd. But, oddly enough,
the two men had similar decisions to make about the future of rural South
Africa, and the path Zuma is choosing is not all that different from the one
his white predecessor trod.
