South Africa: Zuma and Trump - Half a World Apart, Yet Similarly Paranoid and Dangerous

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Within the space of a few days, we have been subjected to bizarre but carefully staged performances by US President Donald Trump and former South African President Jacob Zuma.

Trump has spewed racist hate-speech against four Democratic Party Congress women of colour, telling them to "go back home" to their "broken" and "crime infested" countries of origin. Zuma, appearing before the Zondo Commission probing allegations of grand corruption during his tenure, has played the victim of a 30-year conspiracy. He has sought to "out" former ministers of his cabinet as spies of the apartheid regime.

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