The secretary-general dismissed claims that the former president failed to pitch up to campaign with him on Thursday.
Former president Jacob Zuma was in Lamontville, Durban, on Friday to campaign for the African National Congress alongside the party’s secretary-general Ace Magashule and ANC Youth League secretary-general Njabulo Nzuza.
Magashule addressed supporters following the handing over of a house, praising Zuma and telling those in attendance that the country still needed him. The ANC secretary-general, who has found himself surrounded by controversy following the release of investigative journalist Pieter-Louis Myburgh’s, which accuses him of corruption and gangsterism, introduced Zuma as an ANC member “in good standing” before leading the crowd in chants of “long live president Zuma, long live president Ramaphosa”.He said that while media reports had suggested that the former president had not been actively campaigning for the ANC, this was not the case.
Magashule may be referring to a story published by IOL which reported that the ANC secretary-general was forced to “fly solo” while door-to-door campaigning in KwaZulu-Natal after Zuma, who was meant to join him, didn’t show up.
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