Jacob Zuma

2022 - 7 - 5

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'Sorry Jacob Zuma' is trending on Twitter, here's why (Citizen)

As astronomical fuel hikes and exacerbated load shedding takes their toll on South Africans, dozens of social media users took to Twitter to express ...

However, Judge Frits van Oosten found that Ramaphosa had taken part in, planned and endorsed the cooperation between Lonmin and the police, which had culminated in the deaths, injuries, arrests and detention of the striking mineworkers. In 2015, about 329 mineworkers approached the Johannesburg High Court asking that Ramaphosa and Lonmin be held liable for the actions of the police and also sought compensation. The pandemic worsened the country’s pre-existing problems of unemployment and inequality.

#SorryJacobZuma builds up as SA faces the verge of collapse (Independent Online)

As South Africa confronts the brink of doom, many have begun citing the good old days with former president Jacob Zuma and started directing candid messages ...

The fact that he has multiple wives. The fact that he was not educated. On it he admitted to playing a part in spreading a false narrative about the former president.

Judge Who Helped Jail Jacob Zuma Sees Graft Probe Driving Change (CHANNELS TELEVISION)

Chief Justice Raymond Zondo's welcoming and cheerful smile belies an uncompromising nature that saw the jailing of former South African president Jacob Zuma ...

Ordinary citizens in Zuma's situation would not receive parole ... (702)

Bongani Bingwa speaks to AfriForum's head of policy Ernst Roets about the appeal of Jacob Zuma's medical parole.

Read More were to have been in that exact same situation, we are quite sure that that person would not have been given medical parole.Ernst Roets, head of policy - AfriForum The primary question, as far as we are concerned, is how would an ordinary member of the public have been treated under the same circumstances?Ernst Roets, head of policy - AfriForum

As petrol reaches record highs amid rolling blackouts, people have ... (Independent Online)

As South Africans brace themselves for record high fuel prices this week, coupled with rolling Stage 6 blackouts, social media users are flooding Twitter to ...

I was made to believe that you were the problem, but I know better now. — kenzomohale (@kenzo_mohale)— kenzomohale (@kenzo_mohale) #SorryJacobZumaMy apology to His Excellency President Jacob Zuma,i was misled by the media to display an element of hatred towards https://t.co/OmWpcDI4Hoapology once again Msholozi pic.twitter.com/TWPdWplGAD July 4, 2022 It comes as South Africans endure another week of rolling blackouts as Eskom battles generation capacity. Others were outright apologetic to the former president, with one user saying, “I hope I'm not too late, but I would like to take this opportunity to apologise to President Jacob Zuma for all the harmful things I said about you during your tenure. We failed you Mr President.— Thabani Mdletshe (@Realthabanim) #SorryJacobZuma pic.twitter.com/Cl6jL178ud July 4, 2022 The— JGZuma Foundation (Official) (@JGZ_Foundation) @JGZ_Foundationis humbled by the messages in the #SorryJacobZuma

SA opposition reacts to Zondo call to let citizens pick president (Aljazeera.com)

South Africa's ruling party has decided every president for almost three decades but its chief justice wants a change.

“The voters must raise their voices and support what Zondo is proposing.” Eventually, the ANC may find itself in another situation of having to make a call on whether he stays as president – just like it did with Zuma. “Judge Zondo is saying what we have been saying since 2008, we must push for it to happen because this will save the country,” he told Al Jazeera. “A president who would fire the minister of finance just because his friends wanted someone else in that position.” Due to the party proportional representative system the country has adopted, people vote for a political party and not an individual. Instead, he wants the implementation of an electoral college alongside parliament.