A lot is said about the different leadership styles and personalities of former SA president Thabo Mbeki and the man who tossed him out and became president, Jacob Zuma.
Mbeki is seen as an aloof, international stateman, disconnected from domestic issues and his constituency while Zuma is regarded as a man of the people with a more down-to-earth style more concerned with basic issues than global affairs.
Grubstreet crunched two key speeches of the two producing a Word Cloud showing the emphasis on ideas and words within the two speeches. The speeches we chose were Mbeki’s famous "I am an African" speech from 1996 and Zuma’s inauguration speech from May 2009 which also received favourable commentary.
Comparing the two in this way is quite fascinating. Are they as different as we think?
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