Cape Town – Former President Jacob Zuma has reportedly accused white people of sowing division within the black community and “elevating their spies” to positions of power in the African National Congress (ANC).
Zuma said this while addressing his supporters from his Nkandla homestead in a discussion streamed live on Twitter spaces on Saturday.
He said that the ANC had not made sensible statements since the Nasrec elective conference in 2017.
“Since Nasrec, the ANC has not issued a single logical statement. It’s been dead-quiet,” said Zuma in Zulu as quoted by EWN.
The former president cheered for Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as his party presidential successor in the 2017 elective conference. However, he suffered a blow when Dlamini-Zuma lost to Cyril Ramaphosa.
“We have elected people and sent them to Parliament to go and represent us. If you listen to Parliament seriously, is there any debate that talks about us there? How we the poor, the majority must be helped. Nothing. We have been deviated from what we need to do and unfortunately, this is what I was saying earlier that unfortunately we all just sit. Instead, we are being made to fight among ourselves and there are people who are brought to perpetuate that so that there is no unity,” The Citizen quoted Zuma as saying.
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Touching on media ownership, Zuma said the media was owned by those who had all the money.
He accused some ANC members of chasing away the Gupta brothers from South Africa.
The Guptas owned media outlets such as The New Age newspaper and the television channel ANN7, which Zuma said reported differently from the mainstream media.
Regardless of the party’s woes, Zuma said that he will remain in it and fight for the implementation of its policies.
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Compiled by Sinothando Siyolo
