| 1 | President Jacob Zuma, smiling in a 2009 election campaign poster behind the child, has vowed to provide basic services. | |
| 2 | As Mr Zuma recently said, South Africans cannot continue to blame apartheid for all their woes, 16 years after they achieved democracy. | |
| 3 | Its members criticize the ANC under Zuma for failing to uphold the rule of law and the constitution, which Cope says it will protect. | |
| 4 | But Zuma also remains beholden to his core constituencies - trade unions and the country's Communist Party - which demand strong state intervention in the economy. | |
| 5 | In his new year' s address to the nation, President Jacob Zuma described 2010 as "the most important year in our country since 1994". |