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The third world agenda , why cant we legalise this in the 1st world BEN ?
Jacob Zuma fathers 20th child with friend's daughter
(Themba Hadebe/AP)
Mr Zuma says he believes in the equality of women and that he treats his wives equally
Jonathan Clayton in Johannesburg
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Jacob Zuma, the President of South Africa and the continent’s most famous polygamist, was at the centre of a new storm over his sexual adventures today when it was reported that he had fathered his twentieth child – this time with the daughter of one of the organisers of this year’s World Cup finals and a long-time family friend.
South Africa’s Sunday Times reported that Sonono Khoza, 39, the divorced daughter of Irvin Khoza, chairman of the country’s 2010 World Cup Organising Committee, had given birth to a baby girl in October – three months before Mr Zuma married wife number three in a traditional Zulu ceremony.
A leading cleric dismissed the marriage to Thobeka Madiba earlier this month as “a giant step back into the dark ages".
The child, a girl, has been registered in the name of Thandekile Matina Zuma, the newspaper said. She is the twentieth to be acknowledged by the 67-year-old President, who is set to marry again later this year.
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A spokesman for the President was not available for comment.
Last week, Mr Zuma, whose sexual antics have appalled many liberal South Africans and anti-AIDS activists, defended polygamy before a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Mr Zuma, who at present has three wives, has been married five times. He dismissed claims that polygamy was unfair to women and said that those who thought that their culture was superior to other cultures had a problem.
He said he believed in the equality of women, and that he treated his wives equally.
"It depends what culture you come from. People interpret cultures in different ways. Some think that their culture is superior to others – that's a problem we have in the world," he told a panel discussion at Davos.
"That's my culture. It does not take anything from me, from my political beliefs and everything, including the belief on the equality of women."
In 2006, three years before taking office, Mr Zuma was acquitted of rape but not before it emerged that he knowingly had sex without using a condom with the HIV-infected daughter of a close family friend. He said afterwards that he took a shower to lessen the chances of infection.
Aids activists, who advocate fidelity, contraception and abstinence, say he is a bad role model in a country with the world’s highest number of HIV-infected people.
Mr Zuma wed Thobeka Madiba two years after he married Nompumelelo Ntuli. He remains married to Sizakele Khumalo, the most senior wife, whom he wed in 1973. His first wife, Kate Mantsho Zuma, committed suicide in 2000. He divorced Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who is Home Affairs Minister, in 1998.
He is also engaged to Gloria Bongi Ngema, from Durban, whose family presented gifts to Mr Zuma’s extended family last month.
Mr Khoza, who is the owner of the Soweto-based Orlando Pirates football team, is said to have told family friends that he feels betrayed by Mr Zuma's relationship with Sonono because he considered him a friend.
Jacob Zuma fathers 20th child with friend's daughter
(Themba Hadebe/AP)
Mr Zuma says he believes in the equality of women and that he treats his wives equally
Jonathan Clayton in Johannesburg
11 COMMENTS
RECOMMEND? (2)
Jacob Zuma, the President of South Africa and the continent’s most famous polygamist, was at the centre of a new storm over his sexual adventures today when it was reported that he had fathered his twentieth child – this time with the daughter of one of the organisers of this year’s World Cup finals and a long-time family friend.
South Africa’s Sunday Times reported that Sonono Khoza, 39, the divorced daughter of Irvin Khoza, chairman of the country’s 2010 World Cup Organising Committee, had given birth to a baby girl in October – three months before Mr Zuma married wife number three in a traditional Zulu ceremony.
A leading cleric dismissed the marriage to Thobeka Madiba earlier this month as “a giant step back into the dark ages".
The child, a girl, has been registered in the name of Thandekile Matina Zuma, the newspaper said. She is the twentieth to be acknowledged by the 67-year-old President, who is set to marry again later this year.
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A spokesman for the President was not available for comment.
Last week, Mr Zuma, whose sexual antics have appalled many liberal South Africans and anti-AIDS activists, defended polygamy before a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Mr Zuma, who at present has three wives, has been married five times. He dismissed claims that polygamy was unfair to women and said that those who thought that their culture was superior to other cultures had a problem.
He said he believed in the equality of women, and that he treated his wives equally.
"It depends what culture you come from. People interpret cultures in different ways. Some think that their culture is superior to others – that's a problem we have in the world," he told a panel discussion at Davos.
"That's my culture. It does not take anything from me, from my political beliefs and everything, including the belief on the equality of women."
In 2006, three years before taking office, Mr Zuma was acquitted of rape but not before it emerged that he knowingly had sex without using a condom with the HIV-infected daughter of a close family friend. He said afterwards that he took a shower to lessen the chances of infection.
Aids activists, who advocate fidelity, contraception and abstinence, say he is a bad role model in a country with the world’s highest number of HIV-infected people.
Mr Zuma wed Thobeka Madiba two years after he married Nompumelelo Ntuli. He remains married to Sizakele Khumalo, the most senior wife, whom he wed in 1973. His first wife, Kate Mantsho Zuma, committed suicide in 2000. He divorced Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who is Home Affairs Minister, in 1998.
He is also engaged to Gloria Bongi Ngema, from Durban, whose family presented gifts to Mr Zuma’s extended family last month.
Mr Khoza, who is the owner of the Soweto-based Orlando Pirates football team, is said to have told family friends that he feels betrayed by Mr Zuma's relationship with Sonono because he considered him a friend.
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