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11-06-2025 Vol 19

South Africa’s President Congratulates New Kenyan President

Anita Powell
March 09, 2013

Museveni, Kagame at crossroads



Remember: Constitution is a defiled paper in both countries.




The election of Uhuru Kenyatta is a storybook ending for the son of Kenya’s first president.

[Since 1994, the world witnesses the horrifying Tutsi minority (14%) ethnic domination, the Tutsi minority ethnic rule with an iron hand, tyranny and corruption in Rwanda. The current government has been characterized by the total impunity of RPF criminals, the Tutsi economic monopoly, the Tutsi militaristic domination, and the brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Rwandan people (85% are Hutus)and mass arrests of Hutus by the RPF criminal organization =>AS International]

written by Rwamanywa, a tutsi living in Naïrobi, February 28, 2013 
“I can’t see kagame going anywhere, not until East Africa is tustinised”!
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The best philosophy of “Harambee”

President Zuma of South Africa

PRETORIA — South Africa’s president heartily congratulated Kenya’s people for voting without violence, and extended his congratulations to the president-elect, who won by a razor-thin margin. The warm welcome from Africa’s economic superpower bodes well for the East African nation.Uhuru Kenyatta

President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta
March 2013

  • Deputy prime minister, former finance minister
  • 51 years old, son of Kenya’s first president
  • Faces crimes against humanity charges at the International Criminal Court at The Hague relating to post-election violence in 2007
  • Nominated to parliament in 2001
  • Appointed to run the Kenya Tourism Board in 1999

President Jacob Zuma on Saturday warmly welcomed president-elect Uhuru Kenyatta, who barely squeaked by to win Kenya’s election, according to preliminary results.

Kenyatta’s small margin was just enough to let him win outright over Prime Minister Raila Odinga and avoid a runoff.


Zuma congratulated both Kenyatta and the people of his nation.

“Really I’d like to congratulate, firstly, the people of Kenya, who have gone into the polls and voted, and as you say in democracy, the majority wins the day,” he said. “The fact that they voted and they’ve decided to choose their leader and he has been declared the winner, I’d like to congratulate him as well for winning elections. You know that in the last elections the conclusion was rather a little bit problematic, although the elections were rare. We are happy today that the announcement has been made and the people of Kenya are accepting this.”

The vote count dragged on for days longer than expected because of technical problems. But international observers have said the vote was largely transparent and credible – a stark contrast from a 2007 presidential vote that was marred by violence.


Kenyans’happiest day

But five years after an election that tore the east African nation apart, this election, though peaceful, was not free of complications. Kenyatta is facing charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court over his alleged role in post-election violence in the 2007 vote.

Zuma said The Hague’s indictment of Kenyatta would not affect relations with South Africa.

“No. Why should we have problems? I mean, I mean, the ICC has indicted Kenyatta. That’s one thing… The people of Kenya voted for Kenyatta. It’s their decision. If you say Kenyatta is convicted, it would be a different matter,” he said.



Museveni, Kagame at crossroads



Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya’s founding president, Jomo Kenyatta, and Raila Odinga, the son of his Vice President, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, are contesting in the March 4 Kenyan General Election to succeed President Mwai Kibaki.
The election has been significant because it has marked the handing over of the mandate to lead Kenya to a younger generation, and has tested the maturity of the multiparty that Kenyans have practiced since 1992.



The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a “time”, yet It cannot be destroyed. ==> Wolverine

The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a time, yet It cannot be destroyed => Wolverine

Malcom

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