She first caught our eye last January with a flourish of banknotes pinned to her hat at her wedding. Her new husband Jacob Zuma wore a loin skin.
Theirs was a traditional love song and dance out in the fields of Nkandla, and all of that sentimentality didn't do Nompumelelo Ntuli any harm at all.
As the fourth wife of the ANC president, the 33-year-old is said to be a frontrunner for the title of First Lady, although Zuma celebrates his 50th wedding anniversary with his beloved first wife Sizakele Khumalo this year. Tradition would suggest Khumalo should be number one. But MaNtuli, as the younger wife is known, is starting to appear more and more in public: pretty, bosomy and apparently interested in other's people's wellbeing, while Khumalo is apparently as shy as a whisper.
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A month before the election, Ntuli made a gracious appearance at Qokololo Stadium in Pietermaritzburg, vindicated by it being packed with Christians who had gone there for her own Masibambisane Prayer Day. Sprouting her wings, her moment in front of the faithful came out of a project that has blossomed out of Ntuli's intended foundation for social good.
'I love my wives and I'm proud of my children' She appealed for tolerance "even if you don't see eye-to-eye politically.. God does not like people who fight like cats and dogs," Ntuli said, lighting candles for divine intervention in the epic heartaches of the people.
It is believed Zuma will behave according to culture when he submits the name of the First Lady to the Spousal Office in the Office of the Presidency in Pretoria - a ceremonial act that will have to happen sooner rather than later to avoid a repeat of the embarrassing Kgalema Motlanthe wife scandal. And the nation waits with some excitement to meet her.
Most First Ladies share the same urge as beauty queens to do charitable deeds, so it wouldn't be seemly for Ntuli to over-indulge on Ferragamo, like Zimbabwe's scary Grace Mugabe.
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