Jacob Zuma

All my life, I have served and will continue to serve the ANC in its pursuit of the objectives of the National Democratic Revolution.

I am forever indebted to the ANC, the liberation movement I have served almost all my life.

I do take seriously and am grateful to the ANC that, in the face of its revolutionary mission to ensure a better life for all and the creation of a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa, it deployed me at the pinnacle of its role in government.

Our people are frustrated when we spend more time fighting among ourselves than focusing on solving the day-to-day challenges they experience.

In government, things do not move too quick. That is why I am trying to introduce a new culture: so that things move more quickly.

I just accept that, if my party and my compatriots wish that I be removed from office, they must exercise that right and do so in the manner prescribed in the Constitution.

I don't think, in a country, you can have people thinking and feeling exactly the same.

I fear no motion of no confidence or impeachment, for they are the lawful mechanisms for the people of this beautiful country to remove their president.

The youth of the ANC, ever since 1944 when it was established, has been very vocal. It has made suggestions on things so that, at times, old people said, 'What are you doing?' That is its nature. Alliance partners, they have always raised issues. In fact, that is what brings vibrancy in the alliance. People misread that as huge fights.

The economy in South Africa was racially structured for many decades, if not centuries.

If you grow the economy, then you become stronger, and you can resist many other things.

Judgments that give an impression that we can disregard the Constitution for political expediency, or to solve what we regard as current problems, set a dangerous precedence which will make it difficult to govern in future or to make ordinary citizens to abide by the Constitution.