Jacob Zuma

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – JULY 01: President Jacob Zuma addresses delegates during the African National Congress (ANC) 5th national policy conference at the Nasrec Expo Centre on July 01, 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Zuma warns enemies “do not provoke me” in chilling new speech

Zuma managed to sound pretty threatening here…

Jacob Zuma

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – JULY 01: President Jacob Zuma addresses delegates during the African National Congress (ANC) 5th national policy conference at the Nasrec Expo Centre on July 01, 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Former President Jacob Zuma has definitely not been too quiet since his ousting from office. Now, he has issued a public warning to those who simply won’t shut up about him. To be fair, the majority of South African’s are not exactly Zuma fans.

Zuma was delivering a speech on free education at an event organised by the Congress of South African Students (Cosas) in Durban on Wednesday.

According to Zuma, certain organisations continue to “provoke” him and talk about him continuously in public. The ANC man says they need to worry about themselves.

“Not me, because I have things to say about their organisations, but I don’t want to do so because I know why I’m part of the struggle. They must not provoke me,” he said.

It appears that Zuma was referring to Blade Nzimande and the South African Communist Party (SACP). Earlier this week, the group had a press conference and publically criticised Zuma once again.

Zuma explained that he can speak freely now that he is no longer president.

“I just want to give that warning. Instead of discussing their own programmes and policies, they sit in their leadership to discuss me. I’m warning them, don’t continue doing it.”

He also commented that now that he was no longer president, he could handle them “the way I want. This is just a warning.”

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The former President then launched into his signature rendition of Umshini Wam.

Before Zuma had even made his way to the stage for his address, ANC Youth League KwaZulu-Natal chairperson Kwazi Mshengu, also spoke about Zuma being “persecuted” by the SACP.

“It is not the role of the communist party to spend three days in a meeting discussing Zuma, and then call a media briefing to say they still hate Zuma.”

Zuma is due back in court on Friday 8 June over charges relating to the arms deal. He has one problem though, he can’t figure out who is going to pay his legal fees.