JZ worse than Mugabe – Vytjie

Former ANC MP and whistleblower Vytjie Mentor has sparked a debate on Facebook on who the better president is between Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and our very own Jacob Zuma.

“Mugabe is way better than Zuma in one aspect only. Yes! He is! He protected Zimbabwe’s sovereignty throughout and under all circumstances,” Mentor wrote.

Another said Mugabe was different from Zuma, pictured, in that he was educated.

Political leaders – including some in the ruling ANC – have criticised Zuma for his alliance with the controversial Gupta brothers, who have been accused of offering ministerial positions to Police Minister Fikile Mbalula and former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas, among others.

Sipho Pityana, ANC stalwart and chairperson of the AngloGold Ashanti board, who has long been calling for Zuma to go, has previously taken on the president for allowing black ownership of the economy to shrink under his watch.

“It is yet another one of Zuma’s dismal failures, and he must stop trying to fool South Africans into thinking he has anything else at heart than his own enrichment and the enrichment of his cronies,” Pityana, convener of the Save South Africa campaign, was quoted as saying.

“As was clearly shown in the former public protector’s report, State of Capture, Zuma not only stands at the centre of the Guptas’ economic empire, he actively facilitates it.”

Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane has always insisted Zuma has been captured by the Gupta family.

“The role of the Guptas goes further than immediately meets the eye.

“Even if they are 11 000km away, as some have suggested, they’ve still got number one’s number, and he is captured,” Maimane has been quoted as saying.