Ms Dlamini-Zuma is the first woman and the first southern African to
hold the post of South Africa’s minister for home affairs. She was elected on July 15th to
run the commission of the African Union (AU), having eventually won the
approval of 37 out of the AU’s 54 countries. She is a polished performer on the international stage.
And her appointment could not have happened at the right time this period view the fact that, the organisation
failed earlier this year to pick a successor to Jean Ping, a Gabonese
former foreign minister of part-Chinese descent who has run the AU since
2008.
Ms Dlamini-Zuma, who is 63, has been a minister in
South Africa since the advent of majority rule in 1994. Her record is
free of scandal or corruption. As the first black health minister under
Nelson Mandela, she was criticised for endorsing a “miracle” cure for
HIV/AIDS and for purging the drug-control agency when it protested. From 1999, as foreign minister for a decade, she won plaudits,
proving adept at the sort of diplomatic wrangling that her new post will
entail. As home-affairs minister since 2009, she is also widely said to
have done a good job.
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