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December 13, 2017 The Skanner Seattle Page 7 Bids & Classified Advertising deadlines 12:00 Noon Monday Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. To place your ad, email advertising@theskanner.com or go to www.TheSkanner.com and click on the “Ads” menu Who Will Become the Next President of South Africa? By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire) Film cont’d from pg 5 Sludds). He proceeds to pub- lish the novella on Dec. 19, and the first edition sells out before Christ- mas. More importantly, the manuscript’s moving message about catching the spirit of the season made a lasting impact that still shapes the way we observe the holiday. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS T he African Nation- al Congress (ANC), South Africa’s governing social democratic political par- ty once led by the late Nelson Mandela, faces perhaps its most conten- tious and controversial election yet. On Dec. 18, the par- ty will vote for its next president, a contest that puts former health min- ister Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma against Deputy Prime Minister Cyril Ramaphosa and three others including Lindiwe Sisulu, the na- tion’s minister of De- fense and Military Vet- erans. “South Africa is gov- erned by the Tripartate Alliance of the ANC, South African Commu- nist Party and Congress of South African Trade Unions and this ANC alliance has fractured into multiple competing groups each headed by a sort of warlord,” said Eric Louw, an associate professor at the Univer- sity of Queensland in Australia. “Each warlord runs a patronage net- work which dispenses wealth and jobs within a government system that has become highly cor- rupt.” Louw has worked at several South African universities; his re- search includes the role of Pax Americana on South African transfor- mation. The ANC is wrestling with serious fractures in the party and has been for at least a decade, said Nicholas Rush Smith, an assistant professor of Po- litical Science at the Col- in Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York. Smith’s main research focuses particularly on South Africa and he’s working on a book ti- tled, “Resisting Rights: Vigilantism and the Lindiwe Sisulu, the nation’s minister of Defense and Military Veterans, is among the candidates for the ANC’s next president. In this photo, Lindiwe Sisulu, participates in a ceremony, during a visit to Brazil. Contradictions of Dem- ocratic State Formation in Post-Apartheid South Africa. “The ANC will choose a party president in De- cember who will likely stand for South Africa’s presidency in national elections in 2019,” said Smith. “The two leading candidates for the ANC presidency represent factions of the party that are either support or op- pose current President Jacob Zuma.” Nkosazana Dlami- ni-Zuma, the former chairperson of the Af- rican Union Commis- sion and Zuma’s ex-wife, is viewed as supportive of Zuma, while Ramapho- sa, the current Deputy President, represents a faction opposed to Zuma. “Regardless of who wins, the factionalism within the ANC will like- ly continue to deepen, particularly if the party continues to lose vote- share at the 2019 election to opposition parties,” Smith said. Meanwhile, Dr. Ben- jamin F. Chavis Jr., the president and CEO of the NNPA, said South Africa needs leaders who will care about the people they’ll lead. “I endorse, support and salute the effective lead- ership of H.E. Lindiwe Sisulu to be president of South Africa,” Chavis said. Regardless of who be- comes South Africa’s next president, the can- didate faces serious chal- Merry Capitalism! Very Good HHH Rated PG for mature themes and mild epithets Running time: 104 min. Production Studio: Parallel Films / Rhombus Media Distributor: Bleecker Street View a trailer for ‘The Man Who Invented Christmas’ at TheSkan- ner.com. lenges, Smith said. “Unemployment is rife and inequality is deepen- ing. The next president will face major questions about how to alleviate these problems; prob- lems that have bedeviled every post-apartheid president, suggesting that there are no easy an- swers,” he said. An early Septem- ber poll showed Sisulu emerging as the leading female candidate to lead the ANC and the country. South Africa’s Times Live has Sisulu with a 29-percentage point lead over her closest rival‚ Dlamini-Zuma. Dlamini-Zuma’s sup- port dropped from 28 percent on July 12 to 23 percent by August 11 while Sisulu‚ whose sup- port had already seen significant gains‚ saw her lead stretch from 45 per- cent to 52 percent in the same period. “Comrade Lindiwe Si- sulu believes now is the time to elect a female president. She is of the view that the more fe- male candidates there are‚ the better,” Sisulu spokesman Makhosini Nkosi said. “As far as we are concerned‚ we are trying to get Lindiwe Si- sulu elected president. That is the mandate of the branches that nomi- nated her.” Nkosi added that the campaign was focused solely on getting Sisulu elected ANC president in December. A recent analysis re- vealed that residents of South Africa remain con- cerned with the practice of funneling state expen- diture to suit the busi- ness agenda of the elite. However, Dlamini-Zu- ma said in a recent ra- dio interview that it wouldn’t matter if she focused on state capture and that there was noth- ing she could do about it beyond recommenda- tions already made. “The issue of state cap- ture, you know I’m not in government, I can’t do much about it myself,” Dlamini-Zuma was quot- ed as saying in the inter- view published by The Citizen in South Africa. Earlier, she said, “once state capture was dealt REQUEST FOR BIDS Portland International Airport (PDX) Parking Additions and Consolidated Rental Car Facility (PACR) with, the country could then focus on the most important things, such as poverty and unem- ployment.” Roger Southall, a pol- itics and sociology pro- fessor at Wits University in South Africa, said he thinks the battle for the succession within the ANC will ultimately be a fight between Dlami- ni-Zuma and Cyril Ra- maphosa, the ex-unionist turned businessman and millionaire who has been accused of fomenting the Marikana massacre, a 2012 incident that oc- curred during a strike at the Marikana mine in South Africa. The strike ended when police opened fire, kill- ing 34 miners. “The odds now seem against Dlamini-Zuma while Ramaphosa seems to be picking up not just his own genuine sup- port, but people bailing out of the Zuma faction,” Southall said. “Whatever the result, it’s war within the ANC and there could be a split. 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