We're not forcing people... you can support and be a supporter, but if you go beyond that and become a member, [and] if you're a businessman, your business will multiply... Everything you touch will multiply. I've always said that a wise businessperson will support the ANC... because supporting the ANC means you're investing very well in your business.

Jacob Zuma

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

saws humans made

Even if you apply any kind of lotion and straighten your hair you... by Jacob Zuma

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

kind white hair

Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.

crooks ridiculous wells

You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, tha... by Jacob Zuma

You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works.

minorities democracy rights

Same sex marriage is a disgrace to the nation and to God. When I was growing up, ‘ungqingili’ [homosexuals in isiZulu] could not stand in front of me, I would knock him out.

disgrace growing-up sex

God expects the ANC to rule this country because we are the only organisation which was blessed by pastors when it was formed. It is even blessed in Heaven. That is why we will rule until Jesus comes back. We should not allow anyone to govern our city [Cape Town] when we are ruling the country.

blessed country jesus

People tend to try to find something to talk about Zuma. My surname is very nice and simple. Very simple, so they like pronouncing it all the time. So what's the problem?

zuma nice simple

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.

mud want school

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

luck unhappy forever

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.

rights country world

Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all... by Jacob Zuma

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

capes towns problem

Those who vote for the ANC will be blessed on earth and heaven by Jacob Zuma

Those who vote for the ANC will be blessed on earth and heaven

earth blessed heaven

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.

one-day president thinking

Something has gone wrong with Ronnie... He wasn't like that before. I don't know what went wrong with him.

voting gone knows

A shower would minimise the risk of contracting the disease. by Jacob Zuma

A shower would minimise the risk of contracting the disease.

ridiculous risk disease

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.

democracy fundamentals country

African problems should have African solutions. by Jacob Zuma

African problems should have African solutions.

growth problem should-have

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.

army names country

It is wrong to leave the ANC, in fact, it is cold and rough outside the ANC. People must remain in the party and try to fix things internally because those who do leave they will attract the wrath of the ancestors, who will also bring that person bad luck

wrath party people

...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.

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