Rams Mabote says he initially thought it was a joke when he got wind that former president Jacob Zuma had been elected Sanco KwaZulu-Natal chairperson.
Zuma, who's on paper terminally ill while also facing numerous criminal charges, was said to have been elected because he is aligned to the Newly elected Sanco treasurer Thulani Gamede said Zuma's age doesn't limit his abilities to perform leadership duties and he could still play a role in rebuilding the country.
Zuma's election turned out to be comical when the real Sanco provincial leadership denounced the both the conference and elections, saying the former president was part of group of people who are constitutional delinquents who practiced what is foreign to Sanco. Another election that has caught Mabote's eyes is that of Joburg mayor Thapelo Amad, a local councilor from Al Jamar. Our podcaster says he nearly fell off his chair when Amad said he wants to focus his first 100 days on fixing potfholes of the world class African city.
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