Zuma will ‘speed’ up delivery

PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma today promised his next administration would move faster on delivery.

“We want to accelerate the progress of delivery in the country in the next administration,” said Zuma, adding that the five priorities set at the start of his previous term in 2009 were still relevant.

He was speaking at an ANC election briefing in Joburg.

Zuma dismissed suggestions that ANC supporters had left the party’s last big rally yesterday while he was still speaking.

“We did not start exactly on time,” he said, saying some people who had travelled from far had specific times when their buses were leaving.

“The ones who started shifting was because of the sun, from the side where the sun was stronger, they started moving towards the shade… They were not going out, they were shifting,” he said.

Zuma dismissed suggestions that the allegations of corruption around the spending on his Nkandla homestead were a liability for the ANC in the election campaign.

“The people are not worried about it,” said Zuma.

“Not a single person” asked about Nkandla during his campaigning around the coun- try, he said, and it was only the media talking about it.

He said he still had to complete his response to the public protector on her report regarding the Nkandla issue.

“We think the ANC will win the elections, overwhelmingly, not just by the skin of the teeth… It will win it overwhelmingly.”