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Revelation: South Africa's president Jacob Zuma has told how he used to practise witchcraft against white people
South
Africa's president Jacob Zuma has told how he used to practise witchcraft
against white people.
Speaking in
his native Zulu language at a pre-election rally in the country's rural north,
he told a crowd of his voodoo past.
'I used to
practise witchcraft around here, bewitching the Boers during apartheid', Zuma
reportedly said.
He promised
the crowd that if his African National Congress (ANC) party was re-elected into
power with over 90 per cent of the popular vote, he would come back to the
village to slaughter cows in celebration.
'When the
elections are over, I'm coming again. If you give us 90 per cent upwards during
the elections, we are coming here to slaughter cows. Less than 90 per cent, I
don't come.'
Zuma also
told the crowd that the ANC would continue to run South Africa 'for ever'.
'We will
continue to run this government forever and ever. Whether they (detractors)
like it or not!' Zuma said.
Although
South Africa's ANC government is predicted to win this year's election with
around 60 per cent of the vote, it is forecast to lose a great deal of popular
support.
The past
five years have seen widespread economic strife in South Africa.
The former
liberation party has also been embroiled in a series of highly damaging
corruption scandals.
President
Zuma is also widely perceived has having personally profited from his
presidency by building a lavish £10 million homestead with what is alleged to
be taxpayers' money.
Jacob Zuma
played a significant role in the ANC's struggle against apartheid, working as a
commander of the movement's armed wing, the Mkhonto we Sizwe (MK).
As part of
his underground work for the MK, he travelled incognito around South Africa,
helping plot military exercises against apartheid targets.
Many South
African political commentators have expressed fears that Zuma's and the ANC's
growing unpopularity may see him and the party try to play on South Africans'
racial fears to win support.
