President Jacob Zuma Hints At 5th Wife

During a visit to a Durban township Tuesday in KwaZulu-Natal, the 72-year-old said in Zulu “Angakayakhi indlu yokugugela… laba ngisabathathile nje” (I do have wives but I’m yet to marry my last one).

South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has hinted he may be ready to take a fifth wife to accompany him through old age, the daily newspaper The Star said Wednesday.

During a visit to a Durban township Tuesday in KwaZulu-Natal, the 72-year-old said in Zulu “Angakayakhi indlu yokugugela… laba ngisabathathile nje” (I do have wives but I’m yet to marry my last one).

The crowd, most of them elderly, laughed and cheered, The Star said.

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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10 Responses to President Jacob Zuma Hints At 5th Wife

tutu

December 25, 2014 at 1:23 am

batombe boi zuma,u are an inspiration to de youth and a true helo…banyengaule,anso boi upefye ka 18yr old ka virgin akaba tight!! pabwatoooooh…………
Eman

December 25, 2014 at 1:48 am

By African standard Zuma is hero, by western standards he’s an usshole and no one can cast a vote in his favor.
mj banda

December 25, 2014 at 5:34 am

He is Zulu and its not a surprise for anyone in South Africa but it pains the tax payers like me
mujosah

December 25, 2014 at 6:51 am

Frank mutubila ati power yalipwe,
But even naine Ngabati bamadam
Bapele green light,kuli nandosa
Utupunda five.
kakolwe

December 25, 2014 at 7:46 am

How do you guys manage to breach the subject of the second wife to your wife ayi???? I wonder, because that is a no go area for my woman. She guards my curved manhood as thought it where the Queen’s crown itself.
If I had a chance to ‘Zuma’ them, I would. Nombafye how this woman keeps this thing! Awe kwena mweee!!!
Mwansa C.

December 25, 2014 at 7:54 am

Zuma has only gone up to Grade 5. The fact that he is a president is evidence that we are jokers in Africa. At the rate RSA is going, very soon it will be a banana republic like Zimbabwe
geosifat

December 25, 2014 at 7:57 am

bakalamba kulabachitafwe nokubatombesha sana ngamwanaka mwanwako utumeshi .balilowa sana ba gero.get my email kuli batufweko ngamwanaka how come and help u this is my game.
bonse reposted

December 25, 2014 at 8:21 am

litolefye chikala @ 72 with libido of a goat
Denkete

December 25, 2014 at 10:32 am

Zuma ni saawe proper hegoat.
akapondo

December 25, 2014 at 7:21 pm

Awe naimwe let’s not promote wickedness five wifes for what.Any kind of life you live out side the word of God will open a door for satan to destroy you .

Open your eyes