Zuma controversy 'a test'

ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma has described the controversy around him as a challenge to South Africa's Constitution.

The test was how these matters were being handled, he told Metro FM on Tuesday. "I'm saying that things that are happening are a challenge to our democracy, a challenge to our constitution, a challenge to our political maturity, a challenge to the understanding of the nation as a whole. How then do we then deal with the situation, I think, that's what I'm saying," he said. "And in no way can you have a country that doesn't go through challenges at a given time. I think the test is how do you address those issues in order to find an appropriate solution."

President Thabo Mbeki fired Zuma as SA's deputy president in July after he was found by Durban High Court to have had a generally corrupt relationship with his former financial adviser Schabir Shaik.

Source: News 24