‘I don’t know what I did wrong,’ Jacob Zuma tells supporters

Former president Jacob Zuma will be spending the next week or so still at home, after managing to avoid jail time for now. While many of Zuma’s supporters can think of endless reasons he should be sent to prison, the man himself doesn’t know what he has done wrong.

Zuma spoke to traditional headmen and some of his supporters at Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) on Saturday afternoon, 3 July 2021.

“I don’t know what wrong I have done, they never told me,” he said in isiZulu. JZ’s supporters have vowed to prevent law enforcement officers from arresting him, by any means necessary.

Jacob Zuma takes aim at ‘those in power’

Jacob Zuma further called out “those in power” saying he had warned them against what they were doing. He was likely referring to either the ANC and President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Zuma was scheduled to hand himself over to police on Sunday and start serving his sentence, but he has managed to avoid that after the Constitutional Court agreed to hear his application to rescind its decision to send him to jail on 12 July.

“My lawyers have launched a court case, and I don’t know how that will end. Where things will get difficult (for me) would be when they said I have to go to jail to serve a sentence when I have done nothing wrong, and me also blindly walking into jail,” Zuma said.

“To me, this shows me that the administers of the law, perhaps even the leaders of the country, do not know what it is to run a country and the law. You don’t abuse these powers when they have been given to you, because that can cause huge damage that could have been avoided in the country.”

Former president Jacob Zuma

His supporters, including ANC bigwigs descended on Nkandla as a show of solidarity to the former president.

“You also can’t anger people, even when they tell you that they don’t like it, but you do it because you are in charge of the administering of the law,” he said.