Playing the African Statesman, with teeth: Is President Zuma’s new fighting force such a good idea?

Jacob Zuma is a president in search of a legacy – at least one that's not centred around corruption charges, maladministration or palatial homesteads. He thinks he has found a worthy project, in the form of a new continental military intervention force intended as a powerful African solution to African problems. Not everyone is so sure. By SIMON ALLISON.