{"id":416167,"date":"2017-09-08T13:02:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T13:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/08\/maybe-ghosts-keep-the-opposition-in-power-zuma\/"},"modified":"2017-09-08T13:02:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T13:02:09","slug":"maybe-ghosts-keep-the-opposition-in-power-zuma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/08\/maybe-ghosts-keep-the-opposition-in-power-zuma\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe \u2018ghosts\u2019 keep the opposition in power \u2013 Zuma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s President Jacob Zuma has blamed witchcraft for his party\u2019s failure to beat the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) in its Western Cape stronghold, the Sowetan Live reports:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last elections I was satisfied that we were taking the Western Cape\u201a I even said so. What went wrong? I too can\u2019t tell you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know\u201a [maybe] it\u2019s because of witchcraft, witches practice their craft in different ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The news site quotes President Zuma as saying that ghosts might even been voting to keep the DA in power, during the speech made in both isiZulu and isiXhosa languages:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know where they get the luck to win here because people in the majority are not living comfortably. Maybe even ghosts are voting.<\/p>\n<p>The Sowetan Live also quotes Mr Zuma as saying that witches even \u201cuse electricity\u201d these days.<\/p>\n<p>He made the comments yesterday while addressing fellow party members at Lwandle Hall\u201a in the south-western town of Strand, a year after his governing ANC party suffered crushing defeats in local elections.<\/p>\n<p>The DA won control from the ANC in key areas in 2016, including the capital Pretoria and the city of Cape Town\u201a which it won with a two-thirds majority.<\/p>\n<p>President Zuma accused his opponents of \u201c[using] large sums of money\u201a buying people\u201d, referring to the eight unsuccessful votes of no-confidence held against him, the Sowetan Live reports.<\/p>\n<p>The news site also quote Mr Zuma as saying he would never disappear, even if people poisoned him:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAncestors would abandon me if I left because of people who talk a lot. I will be with you\u201a even when my term has ended. I will be in branches\u201a speaking.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s President Jacob Zuma has blamed witchcraft for his party\u2019s failure to beat the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) in its Western Cape stronghold, the Sowetan Live reports: \u201cIn the last elections I was satisfied that we were taking the Western Cape\u201a I even said so. What went wrong? I too can\u2019t tell you. \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":416168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Maybe \u2018ghosts\u2019 keep the opposition in power \u2013 Zuma - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/08\/maybe-ghosts-keep-the-opposition-in-power-zuma\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Maybe \u2018ghosts\u2019 keep the opposition in power \u2013 Zuma - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"South Africa\u2019s President Jacob Zuma has blamed witchcraft for his party\u2019s failure to beat the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) in its Western Cape stronghold, the Sowetan Live reports: \u201cIn the last elections I was satisfied that we were taking the Western Cape\u201a I even said so. 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