{"id":291012,"date":"2018-12-14T10:04:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T08:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=291012"},"modified":"2018-12-14T10:04:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T08:04:26","slug":"jacob-zuma-joins-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/291012\/jacob-zuma-joins-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Zuma joins Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former president Jacob Zuma <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PresJGZuma\">has joined Twitter<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In a welcome video posted on his account, Zuma said that he had joined the platform to &#8220;join the conversation&#8221;, and particularly to engage with people are are talking about him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hello everyone, I have decided to move with the times to join this important area of conversation. I hear that many people are talking about me, as well as all these others who are calling themselves in Zuma in many ways,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt it is necessary that I should join in and be part of the conversation and join the people in their conversations. It is me, former president, Jacob Zuma.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Good morning Mzansi<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for the warm welcome, I look forward to engaging with you. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sr1MhSNf0F\">pic.twitter.com\/sr1MhSNf0F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jacob G Zuma (@PresJGZuma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PresJGZuma\/status\/1073474576334635008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Zuma had previously been on the platform in his official capacity as president of South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>His first non-introductory tweet on his new account, called a tweet asking for donations and linking to an account purportedly belonging to him, false.<\/p>\n<p>The former president suffered a blow this week after the High Court on Thursday (13 December) ruled that the state must no longer pay his legal fees in the corruption cases against him.<\/p>\n<p>The court said that Zuma must pay his own fees, and that the state must recover monies already paid out to defend him in court.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/290886\/zuma-must-pay-his-own-legal-fees-and-pay-back-taxpayer-money-already-spent\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Zuma must pay his own legal fees \u2013 and pay back taxpayer money already spent<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former president Jacob Zuma has joined Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":225553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-291012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291024,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291012\/revisions\/291024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}