Published in Mail & Guardian on 2 Feb 2012

120202mg - Africa - The Splitting of the baby - King Solomon's parable

Description & Background

The hugely anticipated election of a new African Union Commission chairperson ended in a deadlock  after the incumbent Jean Ping and South African Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma failed to garner two thirds of the votes. The deadlock forced the AU to postpone the polls to its next summit to be held in Malawi in July.

People in the cartoon

Jean Ping / Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma

Tags

AU Chairman

Text in the cartoon

KING SOLOLOMON AT THE AU
Jean Ping (Francophone) and Angolphone - Africa
Sorry Kid they called my bluff

Links

• AU Chair: Can Jean Ping Survive The South African Challenge?
• Ping, Dlamini-Zuma fail to land AU top post
• AU Leadership Race Deadlocked
• Deadlock highlights rifts, inertia of African diplomacy
• Maybe next time: Dlamini-Zuma to try for AU chair in June
• Gloves off in battle for Dlamini-Zuma
• Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, South Africa's stern diplomat

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