As an Anglican archbishop who spent decades working to defeat apartheid and is widely considered the moral conscience of South Africa, what do you make of your country\u2019s current president, Jacob Zuma, who is in the headlines again for fathering a child out of wedlock?<\/p>\n
I think we are at a bad place in South Africa, and especially when you contrast it with the Mandela era. Many of the things that we dreamt were possible seem to be getting more and more out of reach. We have the most unequal society in the world. We have far too many of our people living in a poverty that is debilitating, inhumane and unacceptable.<\/p>\n
But why is Zuma still president? He sets such a poor example \u201d\u201d a polygamist with three wives who just fathered a 20th child with yet another woman. Why is that tolerated?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not. Two of the major churches have spoken out very strongly. The Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Church have said that he\u2019s undermining his own government\u2019s campaign to deal with the H.I.V. pandemic. That campaign speaks about being loyal to one partner, practicing safe sex and generally using condoms, and he hasn\u2019t done that.<\/p>\n