ANC presidential hopeful and former health minister Zweli Mkhize has bemoaned the treatment of former President Jacob Zuma and has come out to dismiss the notion of the 'nine wasted years' under the former leader. | QaanitahHunter
Jacob Zuma, Zweili Mkhize and Cyril Ramaphosa during day two of the 54th National Conference on December 17, 2017 in Johannesburg. Zweli Mkhize said the arrest of former President Jacob Zuma should have been 'handled differently'. Mkhize received an endorsement from five branches in eThekwini to contest the ANC presidency.
He was speaking to ANC branch members at an event hosted by the Blessing Ninela Zone in eThekwini on Saturday, where he received an endorsement to contest the ANC presidential race. "All one is saying, we need to always take the various concerns of various communities, those sensitivities can unravel what we see [as] a stable country simply because we are not sensitive to the feelings people have," he said. More than 350 people died in the unrest that followed the incarceration of Zuma last July in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.
They had travelled to Nkandla, seeking Zuma's support and counsel ahead of the ANC's provincial conference scheduled for next weekend. He said:
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