This video of Zuma taking the piss is why so many people love to hate him

President Jacob Zuma made a whole lot of people angry on Wednesday. This time he made fun of parliamentarians, in particular Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane’s pronunciation of “Nkandla”.

If the president is meant to be under increasing pressure to answer questions over the R246-million upgrades to his private homestead in Nkandla, he certainly refused to show it.

On Wednesday, Zuma used his speech in parliament mostly to take the piss out of the opposition’s obsession with the president’s home.

“Some people who could not pronounce Nkandla, they’ve now learned. Nkandla, Nkandla,” he said in a mocking tone.

Now, we can admit that Zuma resembles that charismatic grandfather who has lived life to the fullest: winning and losing money; knocking off a couple of villains in his heyday; fathering, in error or not, many children along the way. He is a colourful character, who is now in the twilight of his career. And everything is just a joke.

We can also admit that the DA can be muppets for going on about “Nkandla, Nkandla” as if the homestead were the holy grail for South African democracy, but damn, Mr President, you are really taking the piss.

We’ve just had a series of xenophobic attacks in South Africa that killed at least eight people, and destroyed the lives of thousands, for looking, and sounding different. We think your government called it “criminality”.

And here you are, mocking accents in parliament while refusing to come clean over the misuse of public funds?

You, sir, are a fine role model.

Watch the snippet below:

– Featured image: via Wikimedia Commons.