.. agree, even if the ones who did feel they have reason to especially considering the occasion the booing in yours is sad .. .. lol, i tried to find the song which they were singing in the video in this one .. the booing is even more pronounced in it ..
South African president Jacob Zuma booed at Mandela memorial
Nick Miller Europe Correspondent Date December 11, 2013 - 6:57AM
.. VIDEO .. Zuma booed at Mandela memorial RAW VISION: Crowd boos South African President Jacob Zuma before he delivers address at Nelson Mandela's memorial.
Johannesburg: As speaker after speaker at Nelson Mandela’s memorial called for unity, a greater voice spoke of the increasing dissent and disquiet at the heart of South African politics.
You only had to listen to the 50,000-strong crowd at FNB Stadium on the borders of Soweto to know that president Jacob Zuma is very unpopular.
When he entered the arena, many in the crowd rolled their hands over their heads in soccer’s signal for calling a substitution off the pitch.
South African President Nelson Mandela at the FNB soccer stadium in Johannesburg.
South African President Jacob Zuma holds the official program for the memorial service for late South African President Nelson Mandela at the FNB soccer stadium in Johannesburg. Photo: Reuters
There were some cheers, but many more and longer-lasting whistles and boos.
Even FW de Klerk got a warmer welcome.
Despite repeated pleas from ANC leaders for calm, dignity and respect, every time the crowd caught sight of Mr Zuma on the stadium video screens they erupted into boos.
After a while, the organisers decided to turn off the screens, reactivating them only when Barack Obama began his electrifying address.
In Zulu, master of ceremonies and ANC number two Cyril Ramaphosa begged the crowd not to embarrass the country in front of an international audience.
Once Mr Zuma began his long keynote speech, the thinning crowd had been persuaded to hear him out – but some disregarded this anyway and sang and danced through the aisles, ignoring proceedings.
Some in the South African press saw this day as a turning point. With Mandela gone, the ANC has well and truly lost its halo.
City Press editor Ferial Haffejee Tweeted that people had come to say goodbye to two presidents, not one.
Others interpreted it as evidence of a power struggle within the ANC rather than wider disillusionment with the country’s leader.
With a looming election, new political parties have arisen to challenge the ANC’s dominance.
And Mr Zuma is waiting the report from a corruption investigation into the alleged use of $US20 million in state funds to renovate his home, including the addition of a swimming pool.
The president is increasingly attacked as remote and corrupt, and is targeted for his eccentric personal life (he fathered a child with a friend’s daughter).
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