Words matter. These are the best Jacob Zuma Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I have fought corruption.
As a citizen of this country, I’ve got to be honest to the people of South Africa.
Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.
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.
My love of South Africa is not gray; it’s not vague. It’s very specific. It’s in keeping with our Constitution – ‘Unity in diversity.’
You don’t just end up with freedom when you have the vote. The struggle continues.
Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have – we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy – must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.
I don’t think, in a country, you can have people thinking and feeling exactly the same.
There is no cloud above my head – there is not even a mist.
I do take seriously and am grateful to the ANC that, in the face of its revolutionary mission to ensure a better life for all and the creation of a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa, it deployed me at the pinnacle of its role in government.
None of us, no matter how perfect, can claim that the building of a new society and the marshalling of a former liberation movement into a modern political party all happen in a straight line.
Radical socio-economic transformation is a policy of the ANC. As a leader of the ANC, you have to implement the policy. When I talk about radical socio-economic transformation, it’s not my thing; it’s an ANC policy.
My view is instead of political discussions, persuasions, which dominate democracy, in our country we have taken our democracy to the other extreme. There is no debate, sufficient debate. There is court debate.
In government, things do not move too quick. That is why I am trying to introduce a new culture: so that things move more quickly.
I’m a very honest politician.
In no country are all the people factory owners. The majority are workers.
We have a history in South Africa of an entrenched white monopoly capital.
I fear no motion of no confidence or impeachment, for they are the lawful mechanisms for the people of this beautiful country to remove their president.
We are a constitutional democracy. We must deal with things properly within the framework of the law and then the constitution.
The majority in this country have not seen anything wrong with Zuma. I go with the overwhelming feeling of this country. If the majority say, ‘Zuma, do this,’ I will do it.
The economy in South Africa was racially structured for many decades, if not centuries.
Our people are frustrated when we spend more time fighting among ourselves than focusing on solving the day-to-day challenges they experience.
Theft and corruption in the private sector is as bad as that in government and must be dealt with decisively by law enforcement agencies.
If you grow the economy, then you become stronger, and you can resist many other things.
All my life, I have served and will continue to serve the ANC in its pursuit of the objectives of the National Democratic Revolution.
