Tension is brewing between former president Jacob Zuma and South African Communist Party general-secretary Blade Nzimande. Zuma warned leaders to stop discussing him and vilifying his name in meetings.
Zuma was addressing students’ organisation, Congress of South African Students in Durban. During the Communist Party’s Central Committee meeting, Nzimande accused Zuma of dividing the African National Congress and being involved in a fight-back campaign. Zuma hit back.
“I have things to say about their organisations, but I don’t want to do so, they must not provoke me. I just want to do that warning, I have been keeping quite all the time. Instead of discussing their own programmes and policies they sit in their meetings discussing me. I am warning them don’t continue doing it, I’m now not the president where I’ve got to be careful how to handle things. I can handle them the way I want, just a warning.”
