Durban – President Jacob Zuma and his family are the only people in KwaZulu-Natal living better lives, Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema said on Wednesday.
“He promised the people of KwaZulu-Natal a better life. The people voted for him in their numbers. He is living a better life with Khulubuse and his son Edward Zuma. Only his family is having a better life,” Malema said at a community meeting in Amaoti, ahead of his party’s fourth birthday celebration in Durban on Saturday.
Khulubuse is Jacob Zuma’s nephew.
Malema warned residents to stop voting for people just because they were from the province.
“We must vote for people who love black people, who are not ashamed to speak for black people. We must vote for people who are beaten up for fighting for black people,” he said.
The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal is lobbying for former AU committee chair Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who is from the province, to be elected ANC president at the party’s elective conference in December. If she succeeds, it will automatically qualify her to be the country’s next president if the ANC wins the 2019 national elections.