President Jacob Zuma has hit back at the “unfair” criticism that has been laid against him, saying that he is being targeted because he’s black and uneducated and running a country.<\/p>\n
This is according to a report by the Sunday Independent, quoting Zuma when he was speaking at an event at the Jacob Zuma Foundation.<\/p>\n
According to the report, the president said that his critics have treated him unfairly, believing that a man who has never gone to school and is president must be attacked 24\/7.<\/p>\n
“No one has ever said it is a miracle for this man to have become president and written a column about it,” Zuma said.<\/p>\n
He said he was made a laughing stock because he came from a poor black background and managed to make something of himself.<\/p>\n
Zuma, however, said he doesn’t listen to his critics, saying he’d have “the disease white people call stress” if he did. “But I don’t have it because I know better,” he said.<\/p>\n
He laughed off the criticism saying “If a person loses a shoe-lace in South Africa they say it is Zuma – and I love it.”<\/p>\n
According to the paper, Zuma threatened to “spill the beans” on his critics, because he knew who they were.<\/p>\n
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