Zuma Best Quotes & Sayings

When being distracted by a sideshow, one should wonder what is happening in the big tent. — Deon Potgieter

There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence, intelligence (now called 'state security' in a throwback to both apartheid and the ANC's old Stalinist past), police and communications are all die-hard Zuma loyalists. Whatever their line functions, they will also play the role they have played so ably to date: keeping Zuma out of court - and making sure the state serves Zuma as it once did Mbeki. — Mark Gevisser

Africa has decided to take matters of instability into its own hands. — Jacob Zuma

It's just a figment of the imagination. — Jacob Zuma

Having been in the presidency from the time of Mandela to that of Zuma, I am one of the privileged few who has seen it all, rather than hearing it via the grapevine. The challenge is say 'the things I could not say' in a responsible way that helps the country to move forward rather than backwards. — Frank Chikane

Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checked - not least by his own party, which set a continental precedent by ousting Thabo Mbeki in 2007, after it felt he had outstayed his welcome by seeking a third term as party president. The ANC appears to have set itself against that deathtrap of African democracy: the ruler for life. — Mark Gevisser

Remember one thing as South Africa prepares to go to the polls this week and the world grapples with the ascendancy of the African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma: South Africa is not Zimbabwe.
In South Africa, no one doubts that Wednesday's elections will be free and fair. While there is an unacceptable degree of government corruption, there is no evidence of the wholesale kleptocracy of Robert Mugabe's elite. While there has been the abuse of the organs of state by the ruling ANC, there is not the state terror of Mugabe's Zanu-PF. And while there is a clear left bias to Zuma's ANC, there is no suggestion of the kind of voluntarist experimentation that has brought Zimbabwe to its knees. — Mark Gevisser

What made Nelson Mandela great, was precisely what made him human. We saw in him, what we seek in ourselves. — Jacob Zuma

Even if you apply any kind of lotion and straighten your hair you will never be white. — Jacob Zuma

Our media, which is very open and report on really everything, tend to exaggerate the crime issue ... This is why one gets the impression that we have much more crime than other countries. — Jacob Zuma

No one person can be above the ANC. He can't be. — Jacob Zuma

I'm from Malibu, California. Once I tell people, they're like, 'Oh, of course you're from Malibu; that makes sense.' I guess I am your typical just-graduated-high-school-in-Malibu type of girl. Our school was just across from Zuma beach, and we all wore Lululemons and bathing suit tops to go to the grocery store - no makeup, no shoes. — Gigi Hadid

We want to eradicate all mud schools. We are already doing so. We are not in a hurry because no one is going to rule but the ANC. — Jacob Zuma

The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy — Jacob Zuma

Wherever I can go, I hit the water, whether it's the ocean, or in L.A. it's Zuma Beach in Malibu; I just hit the water. — David Hasselhoff

Size matters not. Inertia, however, is a pain in the butt."

-Mander Zuma — Jeff Grubb

The people love him. So how can we condemn him? — Jacob Zuma

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. — Jacob Zuma

We have noted the appeal of Honorable Ambrosini about the decriminalizing of marijuana for medical use. — Jacob Zuma

You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that's how democracy works. — Jacob Zuma

Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems. — Jacob Zuma

People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of this democracy, and leaves behind the kind of chaos we see in Iraq. — Jacob Zuma

Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries. — Jacob Zuma

There is no cloud above my head - there is not even a mist. — Jacob Zuma

There is not a single country in the world that is not interested in doing business with China. And no one is seriously concerned about human rights. But Africans are criticized for wanting to do business with China. — Jacob Zuma

Having a member who serves in the Government and who also belongs to the structures of the party does not retard this particular objective the separation of party and state. It does not. — Jacob Zuma

As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa. — Jacob Zuma

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. — Jacob Zuma

Jacob Zuma built a 2 million rand swimming pool, but no one in the family knows how to swim — Julius Malema

L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between. — Dylan McDermott