Jacob Zuma to miss the State of the nation address

Former president Jacob Zuma is set to miss tonight’s State of the Nation Address [SONA], his MK party confirmed on Thursday morning.

MK party parliamentary chief whip Mzwanele Manyi confirmed to the media that Zuma was meant to be at court on the same day.

Manyi has claimed that the people who run the country engineered Zuma’s exclusion from the address. 

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“It has been structured to exclude him. In this country, how does the left hand not know what the right is doing? Why would his court date be fixed on the same date as SONA?” asked Manyi.

“They have succeeded in engineering him out of this fake address.”

MZWANELE MANYI CONFIRMS THAT JACOB ZUMA WILL MISS THE SONA ON THURSDAY