Friday, 7 December 2012

Zuma in rare interview with British press

In a rare interview with the British newspaper the Daily Telegraph, Jacob Zuma commented that South Africa would not mount a Zimbabwe-style takeover of the white-owned economy, dismissing all talk of nationalisation being a cure to the nation’s “gaping inequalities”. Zuma seemed very composed throughout and came across very much as someone with the ANC’s best interests at heart, not just his own - signified in the comment that “once the ANC says this is what we want you to do, I will do it”. He also touched briefly on the matter of Malema, stating that it was not a pressing issue, as Malema is no longer part of the ANC. Zuma praised Cyril Ramaphosa as a politician and recalled perhaps happier, or at least more stress-free, days when he was a deputy to the union leader...


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