Lukhona Mnguni

Dear Mr President Jacob Zuma

After having read the front page story of the Sunday Times (31/01/2010), I feel compelled to write to you as this ordinary citizen that I am. Because I am a commoner, my judgement of your actions could be regarded as disrespect. Equally you might be indulging in all these sordid acts because you feel that you cannot be questioned and brought to book.

As a young man I have an interest in the way in which those in power are behaving, so as to ensure that we have good, moral and ethical leaders to look upon. A public figure who does not inspire confidence or does not conduct themselves in a manner that seek to inspire development of society, should be eliminated from the limelight and sent into the deepest of corners so that their misleading acts are shunned. To me you happen to be such an individual.

In your address during your inauguration and also in your first State of the Nation address, you emphasised greatly on moral regeneration. The reason why religion has seemingly failed to produce members that embody the values taught in religious institutions is because the preachers themselves are failing to be upright leaders who live out what they preach. You are such a preacher to me.

Given your past record that displays you as a man who is easily tempted by indulging in sexual intercourse, it is very difficult for me to throw water over the claims made by the Sunday Times. To me it is irrelevant that the person you impregnated is the daughter of Dr Irvin “The Iron Duke” Khoza, I would still feel the same way even if it was just yet another woman. If this baby was born under normal circumstances, it means that you must have slept with this lady around January 2009. During the same time you had already paid Lobola for Thobeka Madiba-Zuma and you were planning your wedding day with her. At the same time you were already having the pleasure of being attended to by two wives. I suppose given that you were busy campaigning for the 2009 General Elections, the challenges that you faced couldn’t be accommodated by your wives, you needed to find solace and release your masculine energy on another woman outside wedlock.

What nauseates me the most is the fact that this lady got pregnant, meaning you had unprotected *** yet again. To me it is clear that you have unprotected *** with your wives, because you do it so easily with “omakhwapheni”. It means you are a risk to your wives, because you seem to be fishing for HIV, so that you can take the catch home and distribute it evenly amongst them. Unless there is preventive medication for HIV that you have and we the ordinary people do not have access to.

The Zulu Kingdom should be ashamed at how you have paraded their culture of polygamy, a culture that is in fact to me very demeaning of women. To me it symbolises true qualities of chauvinism and patriarchy, whereby if a man is not satisfied with one woman, then they can go get another. Meanwhile society would vilify a woman who would take a second man. Polygamy also promotes cheating on your wife, because you must first know the second wife, well in your case sixth, intimately on stolen moments away from your wife. So during that time you are lying to your wife or wives claiming to be seeing no one besides them and even to God, whom you made such a pact with when getting married.

Polygamy reduces women to objects that are used to just satisfy the egos of many men out there, who see having many women as a sense of superiority and achievement. To me this is a very small minded sense of thinking.

I cannot have you preach morality to me when you partake in such disgusting acts that make me feel if only I was not a South African. When a *** scandal broke off about Mr Bill Clinton, he had to step down as President of the USA. The President of the World Bank stepped down after such allegations were tabled against him. However to you it is just yet another day another dollar and nothing will happen, because you are hiding behind tradition and using it to camouflage your helpless sexuality.

You are a man who does not respect women clearly, a man who does not believe in treating your wives with the best respect they deserve. I doubt maKhumalo is happily married to you, but she is probably fearful of what shall become of her if she were to leave you. It is unfortunate that the majority of the people in your organisation find your acts acceptable; it goes to show how the morals of the ANC have become fragmented over the years.

You occupy the highest seat in our land and many people will find a way of using your acts to justify their mistakes and atrocious behaviours which resemble yours. You are not a beacon of hope to me, but rather that one of disaster.

It is impossible that you could raise all your 20 children, so it means that you promote unstructured families whereby kids grow up with single parents. You promote and justify cheating. You promote for society to discredit the three pillars of fighting HIV, because you do not Abstain, you do not get to Be Faithful, you do not Condomize.

What are you good for? Absolutely nothing. You are shaming our country and making it seem as if we are unable to be led by principled leaders.

You are a health risk to your wives, you are a financial risk to the taxpayers who must pay for your opulence and you still pledge your support to communists.

I ask of you to step down as President, before you turn South Africa into a quagmire that resembles your sexual life and its animalistic behaviours.

Written by: Lukhona Mnguni
COPE and COPESM member, in his personal capacity

Sizwe

I think poor Mr Zuma is just misunderstood – you are trying to trap him within the boundaries of polygamy when he is truly just an advocate of free love.

I think Pratish Mistry’s latest cartoon on Wonkie says it best: Jacob Zuma: I have a dream cartoon

thabisile

i totally agree to what Lukhona Mnguni wrote in his letter to the president i went from respecting our president to disrespecting him because of his sexual scandal and the way in whch he does things this is wrong

Grant Abbott

The problem with this letter is that you are factually incorrect with the Bill Clinton story. He did NOT step down as US president. In fact, he served out his full two terms. Congress tried to impeach him, but it wasn’t on the basis of his sexual relations with Monica Lewinski, it was on the basis that he LIED about it. He was acquitted however and thus served out her two terms as president. That example therefore doesn’t stand, and if anything, supports JZ remaining president and undermines the argument.

While I may agree with your request for the president to resign, the fact that you didn’t bother to research your facts correctly makes this letter all but moot.

Geshest Dj

l totally do not agree with this nonsensical accusation of the president by the people who are in pains of the fact that zuma won the elections last year………….go and think very straight boy coz this **** u are writing is just nothing but a way for you to be on the spot light………nice try but we do not buy your nonsense

lerato mathushini

lukhona mnguni who are u to ask da president to step down or u are 1 of those puppets from cope who are sent by their leaders to belittle the president,,,zuma;s personal life has nothing to do with u. how many people in this planet have kids out of wedlock? just bcos its zuma and he is not from yo party then u make it an issue, yes i am not justifying wat he did, but do u know his plans about the mother of the baby? wat happened was a mutual agreement between two adult ppl who knew wat they were doing,,as for the aids fact, does it mean each tym zuma gets a galfriend they must cal u and tel u to accompany them for an hiv test so dat ul know dat they r both hiv negative….if yo own father was in da same position would u have written him dis letter?, i dont think so…if u r human u r bound to make mistakes…if u cant deal with the fact that zuma is yo president feel free to move to another country and stop writting stupid letters that shows no respect to adults….

shevone moodley

After reading the article from Lukhona, i must say that i totally agree with him. Our so called “PRESIDENT” has absolutely no respect for the people of SOUTH AFRICA.
And to the reader who says that every human makes mistakes, i say to you, Yes that is true but doesnt that same individual ever learn from his/her mistakes? Its quite pathetic that we have a president like Zuma who feels that whatever he does is politically correct.
He has undertaken an oath to be truthful to the people of his country and he has failed miserably.
Its is obvious being the president of a country means that your life will most certainly be under scrutiny, What examples has he set for the younger generation of S.A?
I am a young South African citizen and i must emphasize the fact that i am absoluetly appalled to have Zuma as a president of SA.
I am most certain that other countires watching and reading about his misdemeanours are laughing at him and our country.
I can only imagine the kind of impact all of this is going to have on the FIFA 2010
To you zuma, i suggest along with many others, that you step down and allow someone who is capable of running our country or else SA will go to the dogs with it being run by your incapable hands.
There is absoluetly nothing goods to say about you and that is quite sad because we should be proud of our leader.
I can vouch for many south africans when is say that you are a disgrace to our country