ANC Youth League defends Zuma
The campaign aims to encourage voters, mainly young people to cast their ballots in the May 7 general elections.
PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma owes nothing, the Lower South Coast African National Congress Youth League stated at a Siyavota (We are going to vote) campaign held in Murchison last Sunday.
This follows the Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s findings that Zuma and his family had benefited from the R246-million upgrades to his home and that he should therefore pay a percentage of the bill.
The league’s national coordinator, Magasela Mzobe said that President Zuma would not pay anything. He added that Zuma had not asked for the upgrades therefore there was no reason that he should be held liable.
“Our president would never have asked for a swimming pool. He is too busy running the country to have time to swim,” he added.
The youth league also criticised the opposition parties for suggesting that the ANC under Zuma’s leadership was more corrupt. He claimed that opposition parties had run out of things to say. He assured everyone at the rally that Zuma was not going anywhere as he would remain the president until 2019.
Magasela Mzobe was one of the ANC leaders who addressed the party’s Siyavota rally. The campaign, launched in KwaZulu-Natal, is seen as the ANC’s response to the ‘Sidikiwe! Vukani! (We are fed up! Wake up!) Vote No’ campaign led by former ANC ministers Ronnie Kasrils and Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge.
The ‘Sidikiwe! Vukani!’ campaign seeks to encourage voters to either spoil their ballots or to vote for the smaller parties in protest against the ANC. The youth league said the two leaders of the campaign were motivated by their hatred for the president.
The campaign aims to encourage voters, mainly young people to cast their ballots in the May 7 general elections.
