Booing Zuma: Is this the turning point?

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Eventually, the big screen was turned off for a while. Then, while Obama was speaking the chant came back, but this time it went "screen, screen". It was just too obvious, and so it was turned back on. After Obama, Master of Ceremonies (and the ANC's Number Two to the country's Number One) Cyril Ramaphosa called for discipline. In Zulu, he said what was translated to me as "Don't embarrass us, we have overseas visitors here. We can deal with present day stuff once the visitors have gone".
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There will be some people who will claim this is a turning point, that what happened at the FNB Stadium on Tuesday marks a major change in our politics. As City Press editor Ferial Haffejee tweeted, it seemed that people had come to say goodbye to two presidents, not one.
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Instead, as Zuma's arrival was announced at the stadium, sections of the crowd began to boo. Then they raised their hands over their head, rolling them over each other, which started as the "change/substitution sign" in football, and has come to mean political change here. Then the chanting. One word. "Mbeki". (He too was in the stadium.)
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As with our American counterparts a large portion of South Africans seem fed up with our President and are demanding change.

Will we see change sooner than later?

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The crowds continued to boo each time the president's image appeared on the screens around the stadium.

"Mandela had a vision, Mandela lived that vision. But what Zuma speaks, he doesn't live," said Funeka Gingcara-Sithole, 31, reflecting the mood of the Zuma critics in the stadium.

"He should do the honourable thing and resign," she said.

Members of the media commented about it on Twitter.

[link to www.enca.com]

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More booing was heard when Zuma's name was mentioned, while the crowds cheered loudly when the names of former presidents Kgalema Motlanthe, Thabo Mbeki and FW de Klerk were mentioned.

Zuma was seen with a stony expression, cleaning his glasses. Sapa reported he was seated between two of his wives, Gloria Bongekile Ngema and Thobeka Stacy Mabhija.

[link to www.news24.com]

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The death of Mandela has been a not unwelcome distraction for Zuma, who has faced repeated calls for his resignation after he was challenged by the country's security watchdog for spending $20m on security for his personal home - reportedly including a swimming pool and cattle facilities.

Zuma will lead the ANC into elections next year but his popularity in the ANC has dropped, with confidence scores in the party decreasing over the past year.

Nevertheless, the boo-ing was widely condemned by South Africans on social media.

[link to www.huffingtonpost.co.uk]

It was not condemned by whites,he is a thief and cool liar,if they touch one white they will be sorry....they can watch me fuckem maybe i will be the white mandela...

South African President Jacob Zuma was jeered by a crowd attending a memorial service for the nation’s first black leader Nelson Mandela, as a series of scandals weigh on his popularity before elections next year.

While there was a roar of welcome for former President Thabo Mbeki as he entered FNB stadium in Soweto, near Johannesburg, boos greeted Zuma, 71, with some people in the crowd making rolling hand signals used to signal a substitution at soccer matches. Mandela died on Dec. 5 at the age of 95.

“Zuma has made too many blunders,” Terror Moloi, 34, a laundry worker from Soweto wearing a cap with an emblem of the ruling African National Congress, said in an interview at the stadium. “He only favors his own friends. He’s not following Mandela’s path. He’s abandoned the values of Mandela.”

[link to www.bloomberg.com]

I feel your sentiments brother and agree wholeheartedly.

I think the people who condemned this was either pro Zuma ANC members or those who thought that this will diminish the respectability of South Africa and it's people.

South Africans are raised to take whatever life dishes out and to always stay quiet and not complain.
Maybe the time has come for us to start raising our voices and say "ENOUGH"!

This was a crazy, strange and loooong day and I am sure whatever happened today will influence things to come for quite some time.

Many white people are fearing this post Mandela period and nobody can say with certainty that everything is guaranteed be ok, but we must stay positive and hope for the best. This is what I am doing.

just vote him out in the next elections

long live democracy

I'd be worried about what's next. If you get elections it will lead to massive infighting between different black factions, which in turn could lead to civil war.

Dude...

I'm with you on this one. Zuma is a dick with no morals and convictions. If only his own people can see that he is using them to feed and empower his own family.

Here is the bitter pill though... Vote him out. Bit WHO do we vote in! .. In the same calibre as Madiba, who really wanted a united South Africa. Yea, he was a brat when he was younger. But prison, and reflection made him the person we are proud of. When the whole world was ready to watch civil war break out in 1994... Madiba made sure that never happened.

With the ANC still holding that much power... It scares me this new generation of politics. NONE of them care for this country. Each want to line their own pockets and tender for every and anything they can get their hands on.

I pray to God a leader rises up from amongst the ashes to bring oneness to our beautiful country. We need total unity.

I always said to my friends, the only people who should be allowed to vote are taxpayers. If you do not have a income tax number or not paying uif/paye... Then get lost, you are a burden to our society and therefore not validated to have a say in who runs this country.