SOWETO, SOUTH AFRICA – DECEMBER 18: President Jacob Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa (who is the new president of the ANC) during the announcement of new party leadership at the 5th African National Congress (ANC) national conference at the Nasrec Expo Centre on December 18, 2017 in Soweto, South Africa. As ANC delegates‚ supporters of the two presidential candidates were equally confident that their preferred choice will be announced as the new president of the ANC. The race was between Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa‚ the only two nominees for the party’s top position. (Photo by Gallo Images / Alet Pretorius)
SOWETO, SOUTH AFRICA – DECEMBER 18: President Jacob Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa (who is the new president of the ANC) during the announcement of new party leadership at the 5th African National Congress (ANC) national conference at the Nasrec Expo Centre on December 18, 2017 in Soweto, South Africa. As ANC delegates‚ supporters of the two presidential candidates were equally confident that their preferred choice will be announced as the new president of the ANC. The race was between Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa‚ the only two nominees for the party’s top position. (Photo by Gallo Images / Alet Pretorius)
After spending months out of the public limelight following his removal as president earlier this year, Jacob Zuma is now seemingly everywhere. Not only has he joined Twitter – with some pretty wild adventures already – but he’s now a favourite on the university lecture circuit.
Fresh from denying that state capture
JZ listed Oliver Tambo, Nelson Mandela and Moses Kotane as political stalwarts who had the ability to take different opinions on board and actively engage with them. However, the man who ruled South African for nine years doesn’t believe the current top brass have the ability to do that:
“Those leaders – Tambo, Mandela and Kotane – had something very unique. They allowed each other to express their strong points to the maximum. They did not suppress them. That is why leaders could be more prominent while others were prominent too.”
Msholozi did find time to pay his respects to Madiba in the end, but again, it was through a thinly-veiled barb at the current divisions within the ANC. He accused some party members of “talking without acting”, pulling the old “our generation did it better” card in the process:
“If we are to remember Madiba, as we did the whole of this year, even if we talked about good things, unity and everything … but of course, some of the things we are doing when we are talking are against what we say. It’s unfortunate. That generation meant what it said.”
Ahead of the 2019 Elections, Jacob Zuma has put his