{"id":2637,"date":"2012-10-08T05:44:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T05:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2637"},"modified":"2012-10-08T05:44:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T05:44:06","slug":"dlamini-zuma-has-no-power-at-au","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2637","title":{"rendered":"Dlamini-Zuma has no power at AU"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2638\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2638\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/au.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2638\" title=\"au\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/au-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/au-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/au.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dlamini-Zuma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Newly elected African Union (AU) chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has been set up to fail in her new position, former President Thabo Mbeki said in a media report on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think part of this feeling that she is going to change [things] is the failure to understand how the AU operates. People might put a big burden on her shoulders expecting her to do this and that and when it doesn&#8217;t happen, they will blame her when actually she has no capacity to do these things,&#8221; Mbeki told the Sunday Independent.<\/p>\n<p>The former president said AU policies did not originate from the AU Commission, which Dlamini-Zuma heads.<\/p>\n<p>Mbeki said the AU depended on policy made by individual nations, with the commission only able to try and persuade them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to be able to intervene with the governments in a manner that encourages them,&#8221; Mbeki said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the AU had appointed a former head-of-state, Malian President Alpha Konare, for this reason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reasoning was that once you have a former head of state sitting in this position of chair; he will have sufficient influence over his former peers,&#8221; Mbeki said. &#8220;It didn&#8217;t work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mbeki said Konare asked not to be re-appointed to the position at the end of his term.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The people should not raise expectation with regard to the appointment of Nkosazana, which expectations will be disappointed,&#8221; Mbeki said. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly elected African Union (AU) chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has been set up to fail in her new position, former President Thabo Mbeki said in a media report on Sunday. &#8220;I think part of this feeling that she is going to change [things] is the failure to understand how the AU operates. People might put a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2637\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dlamini-Zuma has no power at AU&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1665,1667,1666,515,12250],"class_list":["post-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-au","tag-au-commission","tag-mbeki","tag-nkosazana-dlamini-zuma","tag-south-africa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/au.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2640,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions\/2640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}