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JOHANNESBURG - The lawyer representing Jacob Zuma’s financial backer and diamond dealer Louis Liebenberg said the former president cannot be blamed for everything that is wrong with South Africa.

Liebenberg has already forked out R500 000 in a bid to help the former statesman pay for his private prosecution of senior lead State Advocate Billy Downer on the multi-billion Rand arms deal case and News24 journalist Karyn Maughan.

Zuma opened a criminal complaint in October last year, at the Pietermaritzburg Police Station, against Downer for allegedly leaking his confidential medical records to Maughan.

Speaking on SAfm yesterday morning, Liebenberg’s Attorney Walter Niedinger said his client wanted to help the former president because he is unfairly blamed for everything that is wrong in the country.

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“He decided to go and see former President Zuma in order to make sure and find out what the facts are and he found Zuma to be a people’s person, somebody who really cares about human beings and this is something they have in common.

“He feels Zuma is being victimised and blamed as a person for everything that went wrong in this country, which in our view is completely no so,” Niedinger said.

Meanwhile, Liebenberg has rebutted claims he is a racist after a recording of him using the K-word in a private conversation with his ex-girlfriend was leaked to the media.

Liebenberg is heard on the recording hauling insults directed at black people.

“Just like the f**king squatters, with their sh*t, they fill your whole yard with p*ss.

“Those guys, with their big c*cks standing by the road and raping farmers and f**king murdering them.

“Now we want to get away from them, but we can’t; it’s f**king impossible.”

Social media is exploding with memes calling for a return of Boris Johnson following the dramatic resignation of Liz Truss - using references from Top Gun, Lord of the Rings and Terminator. The hashtag #BringBackBoris is trending on social media with hundreds voicing their support for the axed PM just six weeks after he left No 10, forced out by his own MPs after one scandal too many. Mr Johnson’s face was superimposed onto multiple snippets of scenes from the Top Gun movies in order to depict him as the hero the UK needs to escape this mess. But Twitter has been flooded with memes on both sides of the argument since yesterday - with many calling to ‘bring back Boris’ but others saying ‘no, not again.’