Maimane calls Zuma a tsotsi, says he must “voetsek” [video]
Well, that’s one way of putting it.
Ouch. Shots fired. DA leader Mmusi Maimane told thousands of party members who had marched to the Constitutional Court on Friday morning that President Jacob Zuma must “voetsek”.
“Zuma must voetsek, he must just go now… Zuma is a tsotsi,” News24 reports Maimane as saying.
“We the DA are here to say, Jacob Zuma, your days are numbered,” he said, pointing to an imaginary watch on his wrist.
News24 also reports that the marchers were singing: “Voetsek Zuma, Fokof Zuma”.
The march follows a recent Constitutional Court judgment that President Jacob Zuma failed to uphold the Constitution when he did not comply with Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s remedial action regarding payments for the non-security upgrades to his Nkandla homestead.
Maimane said that Madonsela was well aware that she was fighting against more than just Zuma and voiced concern over the apparent disregard shown for the country’s Constitution.
“How do you say you are free when the Constitution is being trampled on by the ANC?”
DA Gauteng leader John Moodey, Johannesburg chairperson Khume Ramulifho, Tshwane mayoral candidate Solly Msimanga, MP Makashule Gana, mayor of Midvaal – the only DA-run municipality in Gauteng – Bongani Baloyi, and Western Cape leader and Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille all later joined the march.
