The South African President Jacob Zuma Marries for The 5Th Time and is Engaged to His Prospective Sixth Wife

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Jacob Xuma, the maverick ANC and South African President loves women and was quick to publicly show case this love by having a colorful traditional marriage ceremony to his 5th wife last December 2009. The function was attended by high-ranking government officials and two of his other wives who were there to give their consent to the marriage inline with the Zulu tradition. He married his first wife in 1959; divorced one and another committed suicide.

The news truly shocking to the whole world about this President was indeed not his highly billed 5th marriage, but the confirmation that he was engaged already to his prospective sixth wife and would probably be getting married before the end of this year.

Leaders the world over are judged by their moral fortitudes besides other leadership attributes. When you have a leader whose mental energies are directed at selecting mates other than strategically thinking to address the attendant national problems like racial inequalities, HIV/Aids, unemployment, land issues, xenophobia, regional issues, climate change and the credit crunch among other monumental challenges which a country like South Africa is faced today, then you must quickly count yourself politically condemned as a nation and the sooner you pushed for an impeachment of such a leader, the better it is for you and your children.

From the day I saw the ANC pull down a statesman only second to Madibba in stature, Mr.Thabo Mbeki, I knew the spirit of poor judgment had cast a spell on the ANC and they were bound to regret the political repercussions of their actions. What time does a leader have to contrite solutions to national problems of the magnitude South Africans are going through if all he does is sit there in the oval office thinking about which other woman to consort with and quickly turn into a wife?

 Zuma is a confessed womanizer-he told court not so long ago that he had unprotected sex with an HIV positive woman knowingly and had a wash shortly after wards. We don’t expect such a leader to competently fight HIV/Aids in South Africa or elsewhere on the continent if he thinks so superficially that HIV can just be washed away after sex with an infected person.

South Africans may want to look the other way, but the truth must be said that their President’s behavior is on the wrong side of history, a direct abuse of office, a violation of the constitution, a breach of the law on adultery and it is definitely a misguided application of power and influence over women. Women are not just there to be treated like the most powerful bulls in the kraals treat cows. It amazes me that the South African Women Activists are standing by as passive onlookers while their fellow women are being dehumanized by the most powerful man in the land. If this were to happen in Uganda, I can swear that our one and only Hon. Miria Matembe and her group of Women Activists would not have allowed such a humiliation to make a visitation upon the Ugandan women unchallenged no matter who was involved.

 I thank God, Ugandans have a President who is committed to family values and has only one wife to show Ugandans. All his children are married to one wife or husband-and both Janet Museveni and Yoweri Museveni fight HIV/Aids as a duty without any moral contradictions in their campaigns against Aids. I wonder what moral contribution a man like Jacob Zuma still has to make in the fight against HIV/AIDS if he cannot use condoms, abstain or be faithful and practice what we in Uganda call “Zero Grazing”. How can Zuma walk with His head high when all he thinks is about women? Am sorry for Azania.