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> [“Remember one thing as South Africa prepares to go to the polls this week and the world grapples with the ascendancy of the African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma: South Africa is not Zimbabwe. In South Africa, no one doubts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-gevisser/remember-one-thing-as-south-africa-prepares-to-go-to-the-polls-this/)

[Mark Gevisser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-gevisser/)

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## Other authors on 2009

## More by Mark Gevisser

> [There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-gevisser/there-is-one-key-area-in-which-zuma-has-made-no-attempt-at/)

[Mark Gevisser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-gevisser/)

> [Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checked—not least by his own party, which set a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-gevisser/even-if-zuma-was-to-develop-the-authoritarian-impulses-of-a-mugabe-he/)

[Mark Gevisser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-gevisser/)

> [“This week, Zuma was quoted as saying, 'When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric, was wrong,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-gevisser/this-week-zuma-was-quoted-as-saying-when-the-british-came-to-our/)

[Mark Gevisser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-gevisser/)

> [What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-gevisser/what-in-mandela-was-seen-as-an-almost-saintly-ability-to-conciliate/)

[Mark Gevisser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-gevisser/)

> [“Remember one thing as South Africa prepares to go to the polls this week and the world grapples with the ascendancy of the African…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-gevisser/remember-one-thing-as-south-africa-prepares-to-go-to-the-polls-this/)

[Mark Gevisser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-gevisser/)

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