Zuma’s race rants
Zuma tells Cape’s shack dwellers to vote ANC
PRESSURE is mounting on the ANC as the date for the local government draws closer, leading to President Jacob Zuma stepping up his scathing attack on the leading opposition party, the DA.
Yesterday the president continued with his racially charged tirade against the DA during his campaign in Cape Town, a city governed by the opposition party.
Apart from the DA, the ANC appears to be also struggling with new kids on the block, EFF, who are threatening to reduce its votes.
Addressing supporters in Khayelitsha ahead of the August 3 local government elections, Zuma said the poor in the Western Cape lived a hard life because they were ruled by the DA.
“Here in the Western Cape you live a hard life because the ANC is not in charge. You are ruled by other people who do not care about you; they only care about themselves.”
The DA-run Western Cape and City of Cape Town were divided in two, he said, with some areas for the rich and others for the poor.
On the DA he said: “Have we forgotten where we come from? We cannot be ruled by an offspring of apartheid.”
Zuma went on a door-to-door campaign in Philippi, telling residents that unlike citizens of China and India, South Africans were not in charge of their economy.
Khungeka Ngengwana’s home in Siyahlala informal settlement was the first Zuma visited.
The 56-yearold lives in a shack with a family of four. She said she told Zuma about their struggle as unemployed people. “I also told him that this shack leaks when it’s raining,” she said.
Zuma told resident Nomonde Maxekwana that it was because Cape Town was ruled by Helen Zille that she was in a shack.
Water Affairs and Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane, who was campaigning with Zuma, revealed that Marius Fransman‚ who was asked to withdraw from politics after a sexual harassment scandal‚ has resumed his role as party leader in the Western Cape.
“He is back in the ANC as a chair. The issues have been resolved,” said Mokonyane after Fransman joined the campaign team in Philippi alongside Zuma.
It is the first time he has taken part in a high-profile ANC event since “stepping aside” after he was accused of sexually harassing his private assistant‚ Louisa Wynand.
“You live a hard life because the ANC is not in charge