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Kenneth Mokgatlhe | Jacob Zuma is neither holy nor innocent, he is used to power

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Former president Jacob Zuma, whose recent announcement that he will neither vote nor campaign for the ANC, but will support the new Mkhonto we Sizwe party, has polarised the governing party, with some insisting that he be disciplined for his actions
Former president Jacob Zuma, whose recent announcement that he will neither vote nor campaign for the ANC, but will support the new Mkhonto we Sizwe party, has polarised the governing party, with some insisting that he be disciplined for his actions
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For the record, it is important to make it very clear that being critical of Jacob Zuma’s loose political misdemeanour, which placed the country into deeper economic woes, should not be equated to an act or a show of support for the current leadership of the ANC, who are doing what Zuma was doing, betraying the South Africans.

Jacob Zuma reminds us about all the senior leaders of the ANC who often appear on public platforms or write autobiographies where they profess to challenge corruption, ineptitude, and failure by their party, the ANC, to bring a “better life for all” to the South Africans, as they have been promising.

In his most recent press briefing in Soweto’s Orlando Communal Hall in Johannesburg, he went on to blame Cyril Ramaphosa’s ANC for leaning towards the so-called white monopoly capital. In his head, he differs from Ramaphosa, and the ANC he led delivered us from poverty, unemployment, failing and falling state-owned entities, collapsing and corrupt municipalities, darkness, and corruption.

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