DURBAN – President Jacob Zuma used his first public look since apologising to the nation for the Nkandla scandal to remind South Africans that he’s nonetheless the president of the nation.
Zuma addressed a number of thousand individuals in Melmoth in Kwazulu-Natal yesterday on the launch of a catastrophe aid fund programme for the drought affecting the nation.
Talking just for about forty minutes to a big crowd that had gathered on the Melmoth sport floor, Zuma used the chance and the event to thank people who attended.
Zuma was in a really jovial temper, smiling and waving to the gang regardless of the Nkandla saga he presently finds himself embroiled in.
A lot of the locals sporting yellow and inexperienced T-shirts, brandishing his face, cheered and chanted his identify upon his arrival.
Zuma stated he was there to deal with them as president of the republic and never as an ANC chief and referred to as on them to help him as their chief.
The president then additionally urged the gang to register this weekend for the native authorities elections later this yr, saying that the black vote was essential.
(Edited by Leeto M Khoza)