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Earlier this week, what appeared to the trailer for a Jacob and Duduzane YouTube series emerged.

I know we’re all getting desperate for new content, scraping the Netflix barrel and rewatching old classics, but this isn’t my idea of a good time.

The almost four-minute video was classic Zuma family – victimhood, conspiracies, and repeated claims of innocence ahead of Jacob’s impending legal battle.

Yes, ahead of his court case on charges of corruption, the Zumas have gone into overdrive, pushing falsehoods and muddying the water with claims of bribery and corruption that don’t contain their grubby fingerprints.

Titled Zooming with Zumas (it’s on Zoom – get it?), part one and part two have now been released, spanning 45 minutes and 51 minutes respectively.

We get to hear from Duduzane, who is dialling in from his R18 million Burj Khalifa apartment in Dubai, and Jacob, who appears to be at Nkandla, which us taxpayers footed the bill for.

I wonder if Jacob is only allowed to use the fire pool between 6AM and 9AM?

In part one, we hear all about how Jacob was supposedly poisoned by one of his wives (despite the fact that all investigations have found no evidence to support these claims), and how the father-son relationship is now “cool”, after a rocky period following the suicide of Duduzane’s mother, Kate, back in 2000.

They also had some stern words for current deputy president David Mabuza, and thinly-veiled threats that if JZ is going down, so too are those who aided and abetted his corrupt dealings.

Dive in, if you can stomach it:

Part two dropped yesterday and contained just as much hot air as everybody expected.

Remember this moment?

#ANC54 The Moment #Zuma hears #Ramaphosa is the new president of @MYANC pic.twitter.com/NCdm1Zg5yR

— Nickolaus Bauer (@NickolausBauer) December 18, 2017

Never one to take a defeat on the chin, Jacob now alleges that money changing hands influenced the outcome of the ANC’s national elective conference in December 2017.

He could be correct, but he lost the ability to be trusted many moons ago. Here’s the Herald with more from part two:

According to Zuma, going into Nasrec the ANC had two options: to choose upping the tempo on its mission of transforming the country, or going off the rails — and the latter was what happened.

In his version, Zuma said “comrades” auctioned their independence in Nasrec where they were bought with money and were thereby beholden to their sponsors beyond the 2017 conference.

But what “took the cup” for him was when he was asked to step down just two months before the Nasrec conference, without been told why he had to go.

Zuma said he was recalled as head of state “because there was a mood” allowed to gain traction. This is clearly an indirect swipe at the so-called “Ramaphoria,” a popular reference to the country’s mood after the election of Cyril Ramaphosa as ANC president at Nasrec.

There was a mood? You might recall this from Valentine’s Day in 2018, when Zuma resigned on the eve of a no-confidence vote in parliament.

You’re in Braam….On a Wednesday evening…On Valemtimes…

What did you expect? 😂😂😂 #ZumaResigns pic.twitter.com/Qzkwh1tfKT

— Bontle BaAfrika Moloi (@BontleModiselle) February 14, 2018

Yeah, huge mood.

The pity party continued with Zuma saying that post-Nasrec was “the first time” the ANC booted a president “who had done nothing [wrong]”.

Asked by Duduzane if his interpretation of the Nasrec outcomes were not sour grapes on his part because his preferred successor, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, was defeated, Zuma said this was not the case.

“The fact that money was the biggest ever seen is a reality, it is not sour grapes,” he said, adding that it was also a fact that the ANC recalled him for no reason after they failed to answer his infamous question of “what have I done?”.

Quite something.

Here’s part two:

Zuma’s corruption trial has been postponed to June 23, with the former president recently withdrawing his Constitutional Court application to have his prosecution stayed for alleged corruption related to the arms deal.

As that date draws nearer, expect the nonsense to escalate.

[source:herald]