Zuma jokes about his vote being “magical”
President Jacob Zuma casted his vote on Wednesday and encouraged South Africans to head to the polls.
Party leaders across South Africa heading to the polling stations on Wednesday to cast their votes in the 2016 Local Government Elections. Amongst those voting was president Jacob Zuma.
Zuma voted at the Ntolwane Primary School in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal where the young and the old ululated and sang his praises. Zuma was voting in an IFP stronghold and was in a jovial mood, jokingly saying: “My vote is magical, it will increase all of these votes inside,” joked Zuma.
The president also urged South Africans to vote, telling the media:
“Sitting at home does not help. If you are citizen of this country and you want this country to develop, you have got to exercise your vote as an instrument to help move forward quicker.
“Of course you have made your choice and it does not matter what choice you make, but your vote is important.
“To be a citizen and sit and be neutral is not a good impression. Are you thinking about the country, moving the country forward, do you want to see development? And if the answer is yes, then you must vote so that you can participate in moving the country forward,” he said.
