President Jacob Zuma has given the British some good face time in preparation for the ANC’s electoral conference beginning next week. He even spoke about Nkandla.

Rarely do we South Africans get this sort of treatment from our own president, so the British should be grateful.

Zuma spoke to the Telegraph, in preparation for his second term as President. He spoke about “nationalisation [not being] the ANC policy.” He also ruled out a Zimbabwe-like takeover of all that the whites own.

JZ even spoke about Nkandla, but didn’t offer much other than the fact that he doesn’t have a gym in his home.

The revelation that his family compound in Nkandla, KwaZulu Natal Province, has benefited from £15 million of taxpayer funded improvements have proven embarrassing for South Africa’s reputation. Mr Zuma conceded that his failure to adequately respond to the criticism was damaging both at home and abroad.

“There is a racial mentality that an African cannot build a house, a comfortable house. I’ve been building there for years. This is a family building,” he said. “These places with gyms are the residences of the security people, not my home, and you there in England get a picture that I’m going to these gyms in my home. I don’t have a gym in my private home.”

Read more from the interview, HERE.

[Source: Telegraph]