Zuma’s testimony has discredited him, says Ben Turok

Former president Jacob Zuma at the Zondo commission on July 17 2019. Picture: REUTERS/KIM LUDBROOK

The performance has discredited Zuma in the eyes of the public and the ruling ANC, according to Ben Turok, a veteran ANC member and former MP. The former president made himself vulnerable to criticism by attacking some of the party’s senior leaders who had intricate knowledge of his past indiscretions, Turok said.

A rally outside the [state-capture] inquiry on Monday drew just a few hundred of [Zuma’s] backers and their numbers dwindled to less than 50 by Tuesday But Zuma faces mounting problems of his own. Besides being a main focus of the commission’s hearing, he faces charges that he took bribes from arms dealers in the late 1990s and his popular support appears to be waning. A rally outside the inquiry on Monday drew just a few hundred of his backers and their numbers dwindled to less than 50 by Tuesday.

He denied knowledge of — or said he couldn’t recall — meetings and phone calls detailed by senior members of his administration that indicated he allowed his son’s business partners to influence who got cabinet appointments and state contracts. He provided no evidence of a plot to unseat him or proof that members of his administration were spies.

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