South African Wins Top African Union Post in Divisive Vote
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African Union leaders elected South African Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as the first woman to lead the body’s commission, ending a divisive six-month stalemate over who would get the job.
Delegates cheered when Dlamini-Zuma, a former wife of South African President Jacob Zuma, won 37 of the 51 votes after four rounds of balloting at the group’s Chinese-built headquarters yesterday in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. Dlamini-Zuma, 63, served as foreign minister for a decade through 2009, when she became home affairs minister.