But DA leader Mmusi Maimane, in support of his MP, was also unimpressed and stood up to demand Zuma to demand: “Can the ANC (which is in financial troubles as a party) afford to pay for Nkandla?” – an apparent reference to the scandal over state funds spent in upgrading the President’s village home in Nkandla in KwaZulu/Natal Province which remains a contentious issue in court.
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Mr Zuma’s reply was: “When I speak to ANC members I speak to ANC members”.
Zuma told MPs the ANC came into being long before a democratic South Africa.
The ANC, however, told theCitizen that there wasn’t a succession debate going on within the party. Dlamini-Zuma has already received strong backing from the ANC Women’s League, the ANC Youth League and a group of Premiers, who call themselves the Premier League. “And I make the distinction between the two”.
President Jacob Zuma’s alleged cosy relations with Western Cape gangsters, in order to influence the 2011 Election, underscores the moral bankruptcy of his leadership and his lack of care for communities who suffer from gangsterism and drug related crimes.
President Jacob Zuma answers question in the National Assembly on Thursday.
He said he was speaking to ANC members as their leader, and not to South Africans as head of state.
The question came in the wake of Zuma’s comments at the recent ANC KwaZulu-Natal conference that the ANC came first. “It fought all the time until it liberated South Africa… and the ANC is taking South Africa to its prosperity”, he added. But, I know no other life than life in the ANC. The ANC is my life.
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“Talking about the importance of the ANC – the ANC that fought for freedom”.
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In Parliament on Thursday, Mr Zuma called democratic SA the brainchild of the ANC when questioned about these remarks by EFF MP Hlengiwe Maxon. South Africans have been advised to spend wisely and avoid taking on more debt. “Democracy is a child of the ANC. You best not forget that”, said Zuma.
