http://www.politics.za.net/articles/2006/08/15/zuma-backers-motives en-us 40 Third world country. First world politics. <p>The Mail &#38; Guardian has now released a <a href="http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=280720&#38;area=/insight/insight__national/">list of Zuma&#8217;s key backers</a> and it would seem that all of them are KwaZulu-Natal businessmen and politicians. Their main motive for supporting him seems to be to purely to have a Zulu as head of the country, something that is reinforced by Zulu King Goodwil Zwelethini and <span class="caps">IFP</span> leader Mongesuthu Buthelezi implicitly supporting Zuma as well.</p> <p>One thing that has always puzzled me about Zuma&#8217;s popular campaign is the support that he has received from <span class="caps">COSATU</span> and the <span class="caps">SACP</span> despite Zuma never coming across as an ardent socialist sympathiser in his time in government. With this list coming out it seems their entire motivation is purely to get someone, anyone, who could replace a successor from the more business friendly camp in the <span class="caps">ANC</span>, which again is wierd considering the business connections Zuma has in that published list.</p> Tue, 15 Aug 2006 01:31:00 -0500 urn:uuid:e104f0c62d4da5571a1daf85bee5f1e1 Farrel http://www.politics.za.net/articles/2006/08/15/zuma-backers-motives ANC KwaZulu-Natal COSATU