Will Jacob Zuma be the next president?

Driving on my way home yesterday my car came to a dead halt in a massive traffic jam. I noticed a policeman after a while and asked him what the hold up was about.

He said sir "It's Jacob Zuma, he's depressed. He's stopped his car and is threatening to douse himself with petrol and set himself on fire.
He is protesting that nobody believes him - that 50% still think he was guilty of rape, that he's being pre-judged in the media about the corruption
allegations and that people are making fun of him for having a shower after sex with an HIV positive woman to lessen the risk of becoming
infected.

"He doesn't understand why so many people think he's unsuitable to become President...so, we're taking up a collection for him"

Thoughtfully, I asked "How much have you collected so far?" The policeman said: "About forty gallons sir, but a lot of people are still
syphoning."

[Nikki]

Despite what you may think of him and his disgusting public appearances, mostly as you know, the court cases, which set back, quit a few important issues that needed to be addressed. Jacob Zuma has lots of supporters in South Africa, and I personally believe that he will never become or should be president, he has no political base at all, I mean damn, all he has is a few (compared to the population of south Africa) supporters of the Zulu culture. The other point against him is that he does not show better judgment, which any leader should undoubtedly show.

There are far better potential presidents out there, all I am hoping for, is that he doesn’t even get the slimmest of chance to becoming the president of South Africa.

Jacob Zuma's "mshiniwam" is hate speech. He is calling on the people to bring him a machine gun. This revolutionary song is just as outdated as the other MK song, Hamba Kahle, Mkhonto, in which the words "kill the boers" are sung at MK funerals.

The victims of structural violence have no knowledge of the Equality Court and the human rights they are entitled to. Security, proper housing, good education, a career, these are just second economy (pipe) dreams in the Third World.

Instead, hate speech is propagated from public stages by a well-funded "presidential candidate", in his strategic attempt to become the leader of the National Democratic Revolution.

Thus, the ANC is caught up in a classic Catch 22 scenario, with little space to manoeuvre.

If Zuma goes to jail, they are in trouble. If his lawyers can bail him out, we should forget about a female state president for the next 10 years, or more.

Zodathi Sithole, Gauteng chairman of the Friends of Jacob Zuma Trust, died last week after being shot outside his Meadowlands, Soweto, home, the trust's spokesman says.

Kaizer Mohau said Sithole had been shot seven times.


A Soweto police spokesman said it was believed that three men had been responsible for the shooting. A 15-year-old boy who had been passing by had also been wounded.

Who is going to collect the R5 million Jacob Zuma needs now?

Maybe Jacob Zuma should ask the former apartheid Minister of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok to take over the massive task of collecting cash for his fraud trial from the deceased Zodathi Sithole, Gauteng chairman of the Friends of Jacob Zuma Trust. After all Mr Vlok is seeking absolution for his sins as minister of "grand apartheid" some time ago.

By collecting cash and washing Jocob’s feet, Adriaan Vlok can "come clean" about some of the apartheid police's worst atrocities. This might help improve Vloks image when the history books are rewritten. Adriaan Vlok, recently performed a ritual act of humility, washing the feet of Frank Chikane, director-general in the Office of the Presidency.

Chikane, who had been poisoned during Vlok's tenure in charge of the police, found the foot washing surprising and somewhat embarrassing.

But as a religious leader he understood Vlok's symbolic gesture. President Thabo Mbeki called it an act of "reconciliation" and there are many others who have welcomed it as a heartfelt apology - rare as a Dodo's egg among most of the apartheid brass.

Struggle veterans, political scientists and lawyers who served on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission said yesterday that Vlok's recent symbolic actions were far from enough. One was quoted as saying:

“If he wants clemency he should go and collect cash for comrade Jacob Zuma and wash the feet of at least 20 million ANC members”

In the wake of Adrian Vlok's footwashing apology, it has emerged that a growing number of black former apartheid security police agents are approaching a support group formed to help perpetrators of atrocities to seek atonement.

Marjorie Jobson, acting director of the Khulumani Support Group, said most of those who contacted her organisation were channelling their guilt by making the first steps to reconcile with survivors and their families. Many were concentrated in the East Rand.

But white offenders still preferred using the services of the Lifeline call centre, so they could maintain anon-ymity.

Jobson, who is also a Lifeline counsellor, said that when she did shifts at the centre, she fielded a significant number of calls from former white security police.

"Most are just looking for a place where they can download."

Since Vlok washed the feet of former SA Council of Churches secretary-general the Rev Frank Chikane, he has performed the same ritual on mothers and widows of the "Mamelodi 10" teen-agers killed in 1986 after being lured into an ambush.

ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma accused the media of sentencing him even before a judge had decided on the corruption charge he faced.

"The media asked: 'What is Zuma hiding?'," Zuma told thousands of people outside the Pietermaritzburg High Court after his and co-accused Thint's case was struck from the roll.

He had to pause while the crowd booed the journalists covering the case, before adding: "Not all of them."

"They asked me what the charges are instead of asking the State. They had already sentenced me," said Zuma. "I said I was innocent, I am still saying I am innocent, I will repeat it tomorrow. I can say anything I like because there is no sub judice now."

Who said that crime does not pay?

[Ming]

As we all know, President Thabo Mbeki fired Zuma last year after the judgment in the Schabir Shaik fraud trial found that Jacob Zuma and Shaik had enjoyed a "generally corrupt relationship". A special resolution calling for ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma's re-instatement as the country's deputy president, as well as a full investigation into the arms deal, has been adopted at the 9th Cosatu congress.

Zuma and his supporters have claimed that state organs such as the NPA had been deliberately manipulated to concoct trumped-up charges to prevent him from becoming the next president.

The ANC and its alliance partners, the SACP and Cosatu, have since reportedly split into pro-Zuma or pro-Mbeki camps.

Sadtu secretary general Thulas Nxesi said yesterday that the alliance was in "crisis".

Sorry Mikki I think you need a thing called umrabulo because your big head is full of emptiness. Firstly there is nothing called Zuma fan/s. We are members of the ANC who believed that there is political motive behind all these cases against uMsholozi. Not only Zulus are supporting Zuma, is Mbalula, Vavi etc Zulus. The answer is NO. Mikki, please wake up & see the light this is South Africa, what happened to Mzwakhe, Billy Masetla. For the first time the whole world will be focusing on the ANC Conference(next year, 2007) Why, you know, I know, everybody wants to know who will be the next president of the ANC and they want to know which economic system will be used in South Africa. They want to know how many leftist are going to be voted to the NEC of the ANC. Please accept this ANC branches are going to vote for Msholozi to be the next president of the ANC.

They should send Zuma and Mugabe to some remote island (just the two of them) and let them practice their politics there.