{UAH} JACOB ZUMA PREPARES FOR HIS OLD AGE

 

South African President, Zuma, Plans 5th Wife To Take Care Of Him In Old Age

Published on January 2, 2015By Greenbarge Reporters

South African President, Jacob Zuma

South Africa’s President, Jacob Zuma is believed to be planning to take a fifth wife to accompany him through old age.
A South African daily newspaper, The Star, quoted the 72-year-old President as saying in Zulu dialect: “Angakayakhi indlu yokugugela… laba ngisabathathile nje” (I do have wives but I’m yet to marry my last one). He was said to have made the statement when he visited a Durban township on Tuesday.
It was reported that after Zuma spoke in KwaZulu-Natal, the crowd, most of them elderly, laughed and cheered.
Zuma, who on Sunday said he was in “perfect condition” after a stay in hospital in June, had earlier given a speech about the need to respect and tend for older people.
Sihawu Ngubane, a professor at KwaZulu-Natal University, was quoted by the newspaper as saying it was fairly standard among Zulu people for a man who practises polygamy to take a last wife for his last years, sometimes the younger sister of one of his wives.
“They call the last wife ‘indlu yokugugela’ (the home in which I will age in) because the responsibility of looking after the husband in their old age predominantly lies with the junior wife, who is often younger than the other wives and more agile in case there is an emergency,” he said.
Zuma, who has around 20 children, has married six times but currently has four wives on the state’s budget, despite criticism from some tax-payers.

 

 

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