Doubts around whether Zuma will attend KZN SOPA
2 March 2020
Former president Jacob Zuma's attendance at the State of the Province Address (SOPA) in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal this week is in doubt, his close allies have said.
"From the time he arrived in the country, it's clear that he is definitely not well. We were supposed to have meetings welcoming him, but we had to reschedule them because he cannot travel too much," the Zuma supporters' group organiser Bishop Vusi Dube told News24 on Monday.
Zuma has been invited to the SOPA, which will be preceded by the legislature opening on Tuesday. Premier SihleZikalala will deliver his address on Wednesday in Pietermaritzburg.
KZN legislature speaker Nontembeko Boyce last week announced that Zuma had been invited to the two-day event.