ANC will rule until Jesus comes, Zuma says again

Pretoria — President Jacob Zuma has repeated his mantra that the ANC will rule until Jesus Christ returns

Zuma – along with David Makhura, Nomvula Mokonyane, Thoko Didiza, Fikile Mbalula, Mapiti Matsena and Kgosientso Ramokgopa – spent Tuesday in the north of Tshwane conducting a door-to-door election roadshow and engaging with party supporters.

Zuma said that people needed to accept that the ANC would rule until Jesus Christ came back.

“I hear people complaining when we say the ANC will rule fully until Jesus comes back but we have been blessed. Pastors have prayed for us,” he said.

He also took a swipe at other political parties and said their leaders never spoke about their own parties, but were more interested in talking about the ANC.

“There is a young man, everytime he opens his mouth, he says ANC. When are we going to hear about your party?”

Zuma admitted that the ANC had it’s challenges, but was quick to point out that they dealt with them head on.

“There is no problem that we don’t deal with because we are a people’s organisation,” he said.

Meanwhile, the upcoming local government elections are probably the most important since 1994, former Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon said yesterday.

“I think although this is a local government election, given the backdrop against which it’s happening from Nenegate, through to the multiple crises of governance and the mushrooming of corruption, it is the most important since 1994.”

Leon was speaking to News24 before going on a march against drugs and crime in Chatsworth, south of Durban.

“For the first time in our history ever, we have a president who… the highest court in our land said violated his oath of office.”

According to Leon, if the opposition did not make a “meaningful breakthrough” in the upcoming elections, the prospect for peaceful change in the country was “not good”.

“I do think that you can have a good judiciary and good private sector, but if you don’t have a strong competitive democracy you are missing the essential prospect for a national revival.”

Leon said he was prepared to assist the DA.

“I visited my old constituency in Johannesburg and have been assisting with fundraising for Helen Zille and Patrica de Lille in Cape Town. I will be here for a few days.”

Leon added that the DA needed to expand its national presence.

“They’ve got a get a good national presence. Sometimes you have to make a few compromising concessions for that. It doesn’t just happen on its own. It’s got to try to become a home that more South Africans who were never in the DA feel at home in.” – AFP