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The office of former president Jacob Zuma has distanced the former president from an alleged “Zuma for President” campaign afterhe entered the race to become ANC chair.
According to Zuma, some ANC members have approached him with the idea that if he runs for national chair at the party’s elective conference next month, he can revitalise the organisation.
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The last five years have seen Zuma absent from the ANC’s top six positions. In preparation for the conference the following month, a Zuma for President campaign and a nonprofit organisation were both started.
In a statement released on Sunday by the Jacob Zuma Foundation, Zuma’s office claimed to have taken note of the business and its spread on social media.
It was made clear that “[former president Jacob Zuma] discourages and does not approve of the non-profit company and its corresponding FNB bank account.”
The company and its bank account were further called for to be “ceased and cancelled by notice with immediate effect and such notice to be placed on the respective WhatsApp group [sic],” according to the statement.
Just to avoid any confusion, whatsoever. pic.twitter.com/X5SBW1mZmW
— JGZuma Foundation (Official) (@JGZ_Foundation) November 13, 2022
In response to suggestions that he run for ANC president once more, Zuma previously said: “That depends on the people of South Africa. If it depended on me then I would have been president forever but it doesn’t work that way.
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“I can’t guess [who will be the president in December] or how the ANC views him and they will take their decision. I cannot tell them what to do.”
He has previously supported his ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, minister of cooperative governance and traditional affairs, for the position.
He praises her “leadership capabilities and her understanding and knowledge of the ANC, among others,” and asserts that she “remains the most capable to lead the ANC.”
In contrast to presenting a better candidate, those opposed to her candidacy, according to Zuma, have “dismally failed” to do so and have instead thrown out names of “those who have a lot of money.”