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Social development minister and ANC Women’s League president
‘It was too opportunistic because they knew the whole world was going to be watching, and you haven’t really seen those women coming up and taking up those issues in public other than that opportunity.” – The Citizen, August 10
“If they wish and think that our president is going to step down, that is a dream.” – Mail & Guardian, August 6
“Zuma is the face of the ANC and our country. He needs respect. If people can start with the president, it means on the ground they are going to bully everyone.” – October 2015
NOSIVIWE MAPISA-NQAKULA
Defence minister
‘We should not distract the president. The nation needed to hear him.
“The nation needed to hear what he had to say in view of the fact that it was the final announcement of the local government elections.” – August 9 2016
MEOKGO MATUBA
ANC Women’s League secretary-general
‘We condemn the denigration of the image of President Zuma by so-called artists. The country was silent and even failed to condemn the imagery of violence against women.
“We therefore stand firm in saying, ‘Hands off President Zuma,’ as the leader of the organisation and father of the nation.” – October 2015
ANGIE MOTSHEKGA
Basic education minister
‘If President Jacob Zuma says young women must marry and other things, let’s not make a big thing out of it. He is only a human being. He may be the president, but we all say dumb things.
“He is just a human being and it should not be a reflection of how he treats women, because women like me who work with him know he has absolute respect for us. I truly feel the president treats us with respect.” – January 2015
LINDIWE SISULU
Human settlements minister
Sisulu defended Zuma passionately in Parliament, following a debate in which DA leader Mmusi Maimane called him President ‘I do not know’.
She demanded Speaker Baleka Mbete censure Maimane, saying: “In the same way as we would not be allowed to say that the honourable Maimane is a drug dealer, we will not allow him to say the president is a thief as well.” – March 2015
LINDIWE ZULU
Small business development minister
"Business wrote off President Zuma a long time ago. They [have] long decided this is the person they don’t want. Unfortunately, they wrote off a man who is the future,” she told the Mail & Guardian in December 2015, after Zuma fired then finance minister Nhlanhla Nene.
