Publication: The Star Issued: Date: 2006-04-25 Reporter: Edward W Pryor

No Matter the Outcome, Zuma Must Not Rule

 

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The Star
Date 2006-04-25

Reporter

 Edward W Pryor

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www.thestar.co.za

 

Letters Correspondent

Your front-page article, "He's the culprit" (The Star, April 12), is a timely reminder - if such were now needed - of the character and lifestyle of Jacob Zuma.

Key factors are these:

Despite the ample salary he received as deputy president, he never lived within his means.

Some members of his own party labelled him as "naïve".

In court, he acknowledged his own immorality and stated that he had stood naked before a woman not his wife.

In the earlier Shaik case, the judge found Shaik to be in a "generally corrupt relationship" with Zuma.

Zuma was in charge of the Moral Regeneration Campaign but proved himself to be totally immoral.

Whether he is found guilty on the rape charge or not, the glaring facts must rule him out of consideration for any political office in our country. We need honest, decent capable people, not blundering hypocrites.

Edward W Pryor
Rosettenville

With acknowledgements to Edward W Pryor and The Star.