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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) The booing of South African President Jacob Zuma at Nelson Mandela memorial laid bare popular anger against him, but the thick skinned ANC leader can call on a powerful political base to carry him and the party through elections next year.

South African President Jacob Zuma makes a speech in this still image taken from video courtesy canada goose store of the South Africa Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) at the First National Bank (FNB) Stadium, canadian goose jacket also known as Soccer City, during former South African President Nelson Mandela’s national memorial service in Johannesburg December 10, 2013. REUTERS/SABC via Reuters TV

Zuma, who was popular when he took over the presidency of Africa largest economy in 2009, suffered public Canada Goose Coats On Sale humiliation on Tuesday in front of world leaders when thousands attending the rain soaked Mandela commemoration booed and jeered him.

The president, 2018 canada goose outlet no stranger to criticism in a scandal plagued tenure, endured the public pillorying with Canada Goose Jackets a stony face. canada goose outlet toronto factory President Barack Obama and Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe. de Klerk, and even for former President Thabo Mbeki, the man buy canada goose jacket cheap Zuma canada goose replaced as ANC leader in 2007 in a tumultuous party takeover.

Newspapers splashed canada goose replica the booing incident on their front pages. humiliation, the Star said in its headline. The Johannesburg Times headline read boo nation a sarcastic play on the multi racial Nation Mandela proclaimed when he became South Africa first black president in 1994.

Writing in the Daily Maverick, political commentator Stephen Grootes called the Zuma booing experience sort of turning point in our public discourse

someone who used to be met with rapturous ululation wherever he went, this is a huge Canada Goose Outlet change, he added.

But while in many nations such a crushing public humiliation would probably have led to a resignation, or calls for swift leadership change, the ANC monolithic dominance of South Africa political landscape since the end of apartheid in 1994 means such outcomes are not immediately likely.

ANC today is not Mandela ANC. People may be angry with Zuma but the guy is too thick skinned to do anything about it. He will brush it off as another unfortunate incident, a member of the ANC National Executive Committee (NEC), who asked not to be named, told Reuters.

Although Zuma popularity is at an all time low among voters, dented by almost daily accusations of mismanagement and corruption, the party once led by Mandela remains the canada goose outlet store locations country most popular political movement and is still likely to comfortably win the elections due in April or May next year.

Loyalty in the face of adversity still counts for a lot canada goose clearance in the former liberation movement. is the president of the ANC and the party won drop him for the election, said another senior party insider who did not want to be named.

ANC executive is stacked with Zuma supporters whose political fortunes are tied to him. Dropping him will end their careers too, the source added.

OF DEMOCRACY Zuma, who under apartheid spent a decade imprisoned at Robben Island penal colony at the same time as Mandela, had been hoping that the wave of adoring emotion triggered by the anti apartheid legend death would lift his government faltering image as it grapples with violent labor unrest and protests over persisting poverty, crime and unemployment.

That hope has backfired, with Tuesday episode eloquently revealing just how low Zuma popularity has fallen.

is a sign of maturing democracy. When people are unhappy with their leadership it is their democratic right to express that unhappiness and this is what I think happened, said Nhlonipho Dhlomo, one of the thousands who witnessed the booing of Zuma at the packed Soccer City stadium.

To reinforce the verbal message, Zuma hostile hecklers on Tuesday gave the thumbs down sign or rotated their hands in the sign for a soccer substitution a clear call for replacement.

ANC spokesmen sought Canada Goose Online to play down the booing episode, blaming it on unruly individuals not broadly representative.

While the party trumpets a https://www.goosesale.ca Mandela inspired campaign message of creating better life for all Canada Goose sale Zuma image has been tarnished by repeated allegations that the president has used his political connections to canada goose black friday sale benefit family members and canada goose coats inner circle in business deals. The presidency regularly and routinely rejects such accusations, if it responds at all.

But the scandals are potentially damaging. South Africa is one of the most unequal societies in the world and the ANC has its power base in millions of South Africa rural poor who are yet to see the fruits of Mandela lifelong fight for freedom.

The country top official corruption watchdog, the Public Protector, is investigating a $21 million publicly funded upgrade to Zuma private home that included a swimming pool and cattle enclosure. Zuma denies any wrongdoing.

WHO WAS BOOING? Not all the public reaction to the booing canada goose deals of Zuma has been buy canada goose jacket completely critical of him. Citizens talking on Twitter and radio stations have criticized the hecklers for spoiling an important tribute to the of the nation Mandela.

people might think of Zuma and his shenanigans and there are many we are all online website obliged to give him respect, the Canada Goose Parka Sowetan newspaper said in an editorial.

Some commentators say the fact the booing incident occurred in Gauteng, South Africa richest and most populous province, cheap Canada Goose is significant. Gauteng ANC members campaigned against Zuma re election at a party leadership conference Canada Goose online a year ago, but he won with support from eight of the nation nine provinces.

important at this point to look at who was actually doing the booing, Grootes wrote.

was a long way from the rural poor. And it certainly wasn the urban white or minority. Rather, it was the middle class black urban resident, he added, arguing it would never have occurred at an event in Zuma power base, KwaZulu Natal or Mandela home base, the conservative Eastern Cape province.

But Zuma does seem to be having problems getting through to ordinary South canada goose clearance sale Africans.

In a bizarre twist, South Africa leading deaf association said a fake sign language interpreter was at Zuma side at the Mandela memorial, gesticulating gibberish and outraging deaf people across the country and the world.