The G20 was carrying on over the past week or so and you might remember we mentioned CNN’s Christiane Amanpour when she destroyed one Robert Gabriel Mugabe in his first interview with the Western World in the last five years.

South African president, Jacob “Jay-Z” Zuma got his turn on CNN with the same lady. She didn’t pussy-foot around, either. South Africa’s AIDS policy came up (onions/beetroot et al), and so did crime, jobs, Zuma’s rape case, the shower scene, Zimbabwe/Mugabe, “quiet diplomacy” and much, much more.

On AIDS and Thabo Mbeki’s previous statements, Zuma basically punished him and said that Thabo had given his own personal views, rather than that of thr ANC. Refreshing, to say the least.

It goes on – it’s all pretty good. Quite cool seeing our wet-behind-the-ears prez on a massive global news talk show!

And yes, he did use the words “actually” and “in fact,” every now and then.

In fact.

Actually.

Check it out:

PART 1 : (Discussing running a new government during the recession, un/employment, crime, weapon trading with Syria, comments on Sudan)

PART 2 : (AIDS, rape case, shower scene)

PART 3 : (Zimbabwe, Mugabe, Football World Cup, worker (wehkas) threats, potential violence, goals as president, the rainbow nation)

Pretty impressive stuff all in all, although he definitely seemed a tad out of his depth. Welcome to the first world, my boy! And I don’t mean that in a derogatory way. I call a lot of my friends “boy.” Including whites, Asians and prawns. My mother calls me “boy,” I might add!

Back to Zuma, he really should learn how to busk, rather than ramble. Other than that, I was fine with the overall package.

What did you think?