Zuma calls for a national cleansing ceremony

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Zuma calls for a national cleansing ceremony

28 December 2012 9:07

President Jacob Zuma wants a national cleansing ceremony to restore what he has branded as the moral values of the nation, according to a report.

Zuma said the ritual would be of great importance in light of incidents such as the Marikana tragedy, the rape of elderly women and political assassinations, SABC radio news reported.

He said people who were not cleansed harboured grudges.

According to the report, Zuma said he would call on Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu to help lead the national cleansing ceremony.

- Sapa

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frans van erk

Hello Mr. Zuma, at last you are on the right track: to clear your conscience but please don’t forget to saw sufficient barb wire into your underpants to prevent your spear falling out and rape friends daughters or some longing comrades. This action will augment surely the moral values of our nation and remove suspicion for your general past behaviour.
theOKE

Brilliant idea! Start at the top,which is rotten. Cleanse the racist jacob,his extended family and the anc. Oh,won’t work,…jacob will have to kill another bull and dance in his Nike takkies to appease his ancestors! What a joke ol jacob and his cadres are!
http://www.facebook.com/ayandam.masina Ayanda M Masina

Sometimes President Zuma does not seem to think before talking he just blurts out anything that comes into his mind and it’s total dissapointment. Someone must send him on holiday already i suppose the Mangaung election caused so much fatigue he needs time to recover, he is not a young man.
- theOKE
  
  Sometimes? Name an incident where ol incompetent jacob has thought?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Potgieter/610787039 Chris Potgieter

Hey Zapiro, add a second shower head as he needs lots of ‘cleansing’ in my humble opinion.
http://www.facebook.com/pisciotta Phil J Pisciotta

While this may seem quaint to some, if news got out to the rest of the world that the president of SA was spending tax monies on tribal ceremonies while living the shameful life he lives, SA will loose what little respect it has in the eyes of civilized nations.
- http://www.facebook.com/jenny.nel.92 Jenny Nel
  
  I think that ship has sailed. The inkandla fiasco pretty much shot us down. It’s bad enough the man has the morals of a dockside alley cat, now he drags us all back into the dark ages with our own money. We regress by the day.
http://www.facebook.com/Deon.Pheiffer Deon Pheiffer

Anything that leads to reconciliation in our great nation has my vote!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000315046473 Cg Tours

The hardworking Taxpayers do not need cleansing they need a Tax break and electricity,fuel to come down and tolls to dissapear. The Poor do not need cleansing – they are not ,committing fraud and living in Luxury on illbegotten money or the TAxpayers and Country’s money? So let us have a look at who needs urgent cleansing.! ZUMA himself no 1 and Nkhandhla money returned by him out of his own pocket and he knew about it and the rest put in jail, his cronies the Shaiks -partners in crime, His lawyer Hulley who needs to hand over the tapes- we are waiting!!, the rest of his Fat Cat cronies he employed at inflated salaries in jobs they are NOT qualified for and most of his Cabinet, All those in Parastatals, earning millions, stop all bonusses they are getting paid for doing a job !All the Tender Entrepeneurs and all those that became Millionaires like him and the rest of the ANC Cabinet from Taxpayers money and money of the Country! That lot needs cleansing- right from the top to the bottom- Actually cleanse them entirely out of Government,Municipalities and into jail !Everyone that got a bribe! somewhere along the way, including Toll Roads, Power stations,Telcom, Eskom and the Arms Deal and all other deals- The Travelgate Corrupt Thieves sitting still in Parliament- off to jail- all of those cannot be cleansed they are too rotten-they should have gone to jail! They are not even embarrassed that we know they are Thieves !
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=796703326 Evans S Mazi

The only cleansing this country really wants and deserve, the cleansing of itself from Zuma.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Bernard-Karl-Hellberg/1199652373 Bernard Karl Hellberg

Superstitious rubbish – worthy of Showerhead’s IQ
http://www.facebook.com/jenny.nel.92 Jenny Nel

Primitive. Ineffectual. Pointless. Getting rid of Zuma is the cleansing we need. He’s doing this to woo the rural population, just as he stood in the rheema church and declared himself a Christian. He’s despicable.
http://www.facebook.com/pisciotta Phil J Pisciotta

He should wipe his behind of all his corruption. That is a “cleansing” SA and the world would be proud of.

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