Decision time

Jacob Zuma, certain to be elected president by the new South Africa Assembly, is from the left of the African National Congress and has faced corruption and other serious charges. Yet his apparent wish to keep Trevor Manuel as finance minister suggests Zuma may understand how successful economies work. South Africa has the potential to become a kleptocracy like Nigeria, a failed state like Zimbabwe or a richer Ghana – a successful free-market beacon of Africa’s potential. If he ends up servin...