No hint of empire for president touchy about the p
No hint of empire for president touchy about the past
No hint of empire for president touchy about the past
As President Zuma of South Africa began his three-day state visit to Britain yesterday, his official welcome by the Queen was, depending on one’s point of view, either the best of British pomp and pageantry,
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For the sake of international relations one would hope that it was the former: Mr Zuma, who arrived with Mrs Zuma No 3 in tow (she also happens to be the fifth Mrs Zuma, as a couple of wives have fallen by the wayside) is not big on colonialism.
“When the British came to our country they said everything we did was barbaric, was wrong, inferior in whatever way,”
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“I am very clear on these issues, I have not looked down upon any culture of anyone, and no one has been given an authority to judge others.Diamond Grinding Wheel The British have done that before, as they colonised us, and they continue to do this, and it is an unfortunate thing.”
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“They”, fortunately,Diamond Grinding Wheel turned out to be the British media, who are unused to people having three wives at a time, let alone fathering 20 *****ren. But if the 35-year-old Mrs Thobeka Madiba Zuma was feeling colonised, she did not show it. Instead, she spent the entire ceremony on Horse Guards looking pleased with everything, most of all when she was driven off in the Scottish State Coach,Mold, next to the Duke of Edinburgh for lunch at Buckingham Palace.
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