Mtalaka wa Rais Zuma amdondosha kigogo AU

The new AU chair Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma (SABC)

 

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, kutoka Afrika Kusini, amechaguliwa kuwa kiongozi mpya wa Tume ya Muungano wa Afrika.

Bi Zuma, amemshinda aliyekuwa kiongozi wa tume,Jean Ping wa Gabon, katika uchaguzi mkali jijini Adis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Dlamini-Zuma, mwenye umri wa miaka 63, ni balozi mzoefu, na alikuwa mstari wa mbele katika kupigania uhuru wa Afrika Kusini.

Kitaaluma  mama huyo ni daktari wa mwanadamu na amewahi kuwa Waziri wa Afya na Waziri wa Mambo ya Nje wa Afrika Kusini.

Mumewe wa zamani, ambaye pia ni kiongozi wa Afrika Kusini, Rais Jacob Nzuma, alikuwa miongoni mwa watu wa kwanza kumpongeza.

Rais Zuma alisema; "Ushindi huu ni ufanisi mkubwa kwa Afrika, bara zima, umoja na mafanikio kwa wanawake ni muhimu sana."

Soma Zaidi 

 

South Africa’s Home Affairs minister, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has been elected as the new chairperson of the African Union Commission. 

She beat the Gabonese diplomat, Jean Ping, who had been at the helm for the past four years. 

Dlamini-Zuma took the lead from the first round right until the end. The African Union will today officially pronounce her as the continental body’s new chief. 

 Wild celebrations as news trickled in that Dlamini-Zuma had been crowned the AU’s Commission’s chairperson.

Team South Africa, led by President Jacob Zuma, was visibly elated as they congratulated the woman of the moment.

Dlamini-Zuma was the SADC’s region’s candidate. 

It’s the first time that a Southern African occupies this position in the AU’s 49 years of existence.

It’s also a first for a woman to lead this continental body. 

The AU declared this decade as a decade for women, perhaps a fitting tribute that it has bestowed such an honour to a woman.

She will be officially installed today at the new AU headquarters in Addis Ababa.