South Africans cannot believe they have an uneducated president – Zuma
Durban – "South Africans cannot believe that a man who never went to school is the President and that is the reason why he must be attacked 24/7…" President Jacob Zuma said on Friday.
Speaking in his capacity as the patron of the Jacob Zuma Foundation at the Dube House official residence in Morningside, where he was bidding farewell to 19 students going to study at the American University of Nigeria, in Nigeria, Zuma said being poor was one of the reasons why he decided to start the foundation.
"I suffered because I never went to school and that is the reason why I decided to educate myself... There are people whose business is to say that we cannot have a man who never went to school running a country.
“We must rubbish him 24/7... No one has ever said it is a miracle for this man to have become president and wrote a column about it."
Zuma said if he listened to his critics he would have "that disease white people call stress but I don’t have it because I know better".