“I Built my own home. But some say he can’t build such a big home in Nkandla. You must be arrested because you are building your father’s home.”
I thought I was watching a re-run of events way before 2016, when President Jacob Zuma was at the height of his callous defence of the indefensible Nkandla “security upgrades”.
That was before the Constitutional Court ruled that Zuma had failed to uphold the constitution.
That was before he apologised for his handling of the Nkandla scandal. That was back when the likes of Blade Nzimande were still among his most ardent defenders.
However, these words were spoken recently by Zuma. In fact, on Friday, during his visit to Nkandla’s best performing schools.
Why the man had to bring the issue of his sprawling homestead up during this visit is a mystery. But it has become a Zuma trademark to sprout utter nonsense.
It has also become a trademark to sprout nonsense in direct contradiction of decisions made by the ANC, to which he claims loyalty.
If the ANC welcomed the judgment, and Zuma apologised accordingly, why on earth would he now do an about-turn and make a mockery of the ANC, the ConCourt and himself?
He was not the only one blathering nonsense.
On the weekend, amid the continued calls for him to step down and in the aftermath of comments made by the ANC president in Davos about Zuma’s “state of concern”, the ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte came flying out right on cue to publicly defend the worst president since 1994.
In an interview with City Press on Friday she made comments that could well been scripted somewhere like Saxonwold or …eh, Dubai.
This was at exactly the same time that Zuma was spewing toxic nonsense to children in Nkandla.
“This is one person who has really literally been chased in every possible way. It’s unfortunate, it’s sad, but it’s also reality,” murmured Duarte.
Seriously?! Does she take us for fools? Uba uleqiwe, uleqwe kancinci uJacob Zuma.
Surely whoever chased him, did not chase him hard enough. He’s still right here, spewing the same tripe he has been spewing for almost a decade.
It’s unbelievable that Duarte even thinks there is an audience prepared to listen to the rubbish she’s also been spewing for a decade or so in blind defence of JZ.
But she was not done. She continued: “It started off with a relationship he had with Schabir Shaik and that resulted in some 700 possible charges. It grew and grew, and it’s been growing every since.”
Well, yes Jessie, eh…. it’s been growing ever since. It has now morphed into the monster referred to as state capture – something in which you too are implicated, madam.
But soon a day of reckoning is coming for those who have contrived to re-purpose the entire state for the single purpose of wholesale looting.
Reminds me of the call that used to go up in an African community when a thief was at work: “Iwuuuuu, iseelaaaaa (Catch that thief)”. The able-bodied would then rush out to give chase.
However, there is apparently no end to the amount of delusion suffered by Duarte. She then went on to present Zuma as having “decided” of his own volition to pay back the money in the disgraceful Nkandla saga.
“He fought against it at first, but then decided to pay. I do sometimes wonder if we are really living in the real world.”
Eh, … I suspect, it is she who is living on Planet Zuma.
Then of course, she wasn’t the only comrade-in-Guptas mouthing off nonsense at the weekend.
Speaking at an ANC Youth League rally in Pietermaritzburg, the new ANC secretary-general and Free State Premier Ace Magashule blurted out his discomfort over the rapid pace of certain state capture related investigations – which happened to be very close to home for Ace.
“I see they are trying to intimidate us Vrede dairy. They mustn't scare us because they want us to leave this position. We accept the law must take its course. They mustn’t write about us – they must investigate and decide, and if any wrongdoing was done, they must act without fear,” he said.
Well, who is “they”, Ace, I wonder?
And who is “us”? And are the people investigating the same as the ones writing, Ace? And what exactly does whoever “they” are, have to fear? Please do explain.
These utterances seem a bit off, sort of like the ramblings of someone no longer able to distinguish between truth and fiction and who may just have realised the heavy stone of justice has started rolling.
Well, long and hard may it roll.
And hard may the comrades-in-Guptas who willingly sold out this entire nation panic.
Comrades-in-Guptas panicking as heavy stone of justice begins to roll
I thought I was watching a re-run of events way before 2016, when President Jacob Zuma was at the height of his callous defence of the indefensible Nkandla “security upgrades”.
That was before the Constitutional Court ruled that Zuma had failed to uphold the constitution.
That was before he apologised for his handling of the Nkandla scandal. That was back when the likes of Blade Nzimande were still among his most ardent defenders.
However, these words were spoken recently by Zuma. In fact, on Friday, during his visit to Nkandla’s best performing schools.
Why the man had to bring the issue of his sprawling homestead up during this visit is a mystery. But it has become a Zuma trademark to sprout utter nonsense.
It has also become a trademark to sprout nonsense in direct contradiction of decisions made by the ANC, to which he claims loyalty.
If the ANC welcomed the judgment, and Zuma apologised accordingly, why on earth would he now do an about-turn and make a mockery of the ANC, the ConCourt and himself?
He was not the only one blathering nonsense.
On the weekend, amid the continued calls for him to step down and in the aftermath of comments made by the ANC president in Davos about Zuma’s “state of concern”, the ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte came flying out right on cue to publicly defend the worst president since 1994.
In an interview with City Press on Friday she made comments that could well been scripted somewhere like Saxonwold or …eh, Dubai.
This was at exactly the same time that Zuma was spewing toxic nonsense to children in Nkandla.
“This is one person who has really literally been chased in every possible way. It’s unfortunate, it’s sad, but it’s also reality,” murmured Duarte.
Seriously?! Does she take us for fools? Uba uleqiwe, uleqwe kancinci uJacob Zuma.
Surely whoever chased him, did not chase him hard enough. He’s still right here, spewing the same tripe he has been spewing for almost a decade.
It’s unbelievable that Duarte even thinks there is an audience prepared to listen to the rubbish she’s also been spewing for a decade or so in blind defence of JZ.
But she was not done. She continued: “It started off with a relationship he had with Schabir Shaik and that resulted in some 700 possible charges. It grew and grew, and it’s been growing every since.”
Well, yes Jessie, eh…. it’s been growing ever since. It has now morphed into the monster referred to as state capture – something in which you too are implicated, madam.
But soon a day of reckoning is coming for those who have contrived to re-purpose the entire state for the single purpose of wholesale looting.
Reminds me of the call that used to go up in an African community when a thief was at work: “Iwuuuuu, iseelaaaaa (Catch that thief)”. The able-bodied would then rush out to give chase.
However, there is apparently no end to the amount of delusion suffered by Duarte. She then went on to present Zuma as having “decided” of his own volition to pay back the money in the disgraceful Nkandla saga.
“He fought against it at first, but then decided to pay. I do sometimes wonder if we are really living in the real world.”
Eh, … I suspect, it is she who is living on Planet Zuma.
Then of course, she wasn’t the only comrade-in-Guptas mouthing off nonsense at the weekend.
Speaking at an ANC Youth League rally in Pietermaritzburg, the new ANC secretary-general and Free State Premier Ace Magashule blurted out his discomfort over the rapid pace of certain state capture related investigations – which happened to be very close to home for Ace.
“I see they are trying to intimidate us Vrede dairy. They mustn't scare us because they want us to leave this position. We accept the law must take its course. They mustn’t write about us – they must investigate and decide, and if any wrongdoing was done, they must act without fear,” he said.
Well, who is “they”, Ace, I wonder?
And who is “us”? And are the people investigating the same as the ones writing, Ace? And what exactly does whoever “they” are, have to fear? Please do explain.
These utterances seem a bit off, sort of like the ramblings of someone no longer able to distinguish between truth and fiction and who may just have realised the heavy stone of justice has started rolling.
Well, long and hard may it roll.
And hard may the comrades-in-Guptas who willingly sold out this entire nation panic.
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