Jacob Zuma Quotes

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  • No one person can be above the ANC. He can't be.

  • As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.

  • Criminality is always the result of poverty.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • God expects the ANC to rule this country because we are the only organisation which was blessed by pastors when it was formed. It is even blessed in Heaven. That is why we will rule until Jesus comes back. We should not allow anyone to govern our city [Cape Town] when we are ruling the country.

  • Same sex marriage is a disgrace to the nation and to God. When I was growing up, ‘ungqingili’ [homosexuals in isiZulu] could not stand in front of me, I would knock him out.

  • Something has gone wrong with Ronnie... He wasn't like that before. I don't know what went wrong with him.

  • What made Nelson Mandela great was precisely what made him human. We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.

    Jacob Zuma's Address to South Africa on Nelson Mandela's death, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2013.
  • The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy

  • It is wrong to leave the ANC, in fact, it is cold and rough outside the ANC. People must remain in the party and try to fix things internally because those who do leave they will attract the wrath of the ancestors, who will also bring that person bad luck

  • Once we have the infrastructure in Africa, it should not be blocked by borders.

  • People tend to try to find something to talk about Zuma. My surname is very nice and simple. Very simple, so they like pronouncing it all the time. So what's the problem?

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  • The Constitution is only there to regulate matters.

  • Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.

  • African problems should have African solutions.

  • It's just a figment of the imagination.

  • Even if you apply any kind of lotion and straighten your hair you will never be white.

    "'Even if you straighten your hair, you will never be white' - Zuma". Jacob Zuma's controversial speech in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, archive.sowetanlive.co.za. December 27, 2012.
  • Africa has decided to take matters of instability into its own hands.

  • People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of this democracy, and leaves behind the kind of chaos we see in Iraq.

  • ...The people love him. So how can we condemn him?

  • When I joined the ANC, I never thought I would be anything. In no way, did I say, 'One day I could be the president. I think I am good material for the presidency.' Not at all.

  • Our media, which is very open and report on really everything, tend to exaggerate the crime issue...This is why one gets the impression that we have much more crime than other countries.

  • That is a debatable point, whether South Africans are xenophobic. I don't you'd have the numbers that you have of foreigners if South Africa was xenophobic.

    "South Africa Xenophobic Attacks" with Michel Martin, kccu.org. February 25, 2017.
  • Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.

  • We want to eradicate all mud schools. We are already doing so. We are not in a hurry because no one is going to rule but the ANC.

  • The ANC is more important than the Constitution.

  • There is no cloud above my head - there is not even a mist.

    "South Africans expect record turnout of 80% for elections" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2009.
  • We're not forcing people... you can support and be a supporter, but if you go beyond that and become a member, [and] if you're a businessman, your business will multiply... Everything you touch will multiply. I've always said that a wise businessperson will support the ANC... because supporting the ANC means you're investing very well in your business.

    Jacob Zuma'sremarks at the 101st Anniversary Gala Dinner of the African National Congress in Durban, January 12, 2013.
  • You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works.

  • Those who vote for the ANC will be blessed on earth and heaven

  • ...having a member who serves in the Government and who also belongs to the structures of the party does not retard this particular objective the separation of party and state. It does not.

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    Jacob Zuma

    • Born: April 12, 1942
    • Occupation: President of South Africa