Julius Malema answers questions about President Zuma ranging from his marriages to his rape trial.
Zuma marriages:
* “I don’t know what a priority is for him. Maybe getting married every year, he specialises in that one.”
* “We can’t allow a president who gets married every weekend, it can’t be.”
On rape trial:
* “President Zuma was the chairperson of a government Aids council which developed the strategy to fight HIV, yet he slept with her knowing that she was HIV-positive.”
After Zuma was cleared of rape:
* “Worse, he introduced a shower as a new method to fight HIV infection.”
On Zuma’s leadership style and judgment capacity:
* “Zuma has no thinking capacity, he doesn’t have ideas. Anything he says, you must rest assured he heard somebody saying it and he believed it.”
* “If we were engaged in academic activity, Zuma would be accused of plagiarism because he doesn’t acknowledge the source.”
* “President Zuma is a prime instigator of instability in the ANC, South Africa and African continent, and the sooner society notices that, the better.”
* “How can Zuma ask miners to respect the constitution if he does not?”
* “Every time he stands up to speak about corruption, people look the other side and say ‘look who’s talking’.”
Guptagate:
* “We should all agree that President Zuma has sold South Africa over a plate of curry.”
* “To suggest that Zuma is not aware or was not complicit in the granting of the permission to his friends to use the (Waterkloof) air base, is just plain foolishness.”
* “It is this close relationship between the Gupta and Zuma families that has compromised our national security. President Zuma should do the honourable thing and resign.”
Nkandla:
* “Who said you are going to be president for life? That house is built on state money. That man, when he leaves, he must leave that house. We can use it for a boarding school.”
* “They want to give you (miners) R16 000, but they give another man R250 million to build a house.”
On his charges:
* “I’ve never taken part in any criminal activity. The illiterate Jacob Zuma told them in isiZulu to come and arrest me.”
* “All charges, it’s a political conspiracy by (Zuma) and his administration. President Zuma has done everything to make sure that I lost everything and block whoever is linked with Malema.”
The Star