Speaking to TimesLIVE on Saturday at the MKP's anniversary celebrations at Vosloorus Stadium, Ekurhuleni, Manyi was confident Zuma would not lose his house in the legal battle.
“We love the EFF, we have no war with the EFF. We also understand that they are hurting. A lot of people have been coming from that side [to MKP]. We must all understand that they are going through pain,” he said.
“We sympathise with the pain, and we are not angry at them. But at a factual level, his excellency president Zuma lives on Ingonyama Trust land, so it is unattachable, because it's not like it's private property.”
Manyi said he hoped the EFF's “anger” would calm down.
“We note that things were said in anger and we have no issue with that. When people are angry and disappointed, they will say a lot of things. We accept it, we are grown-ups in the MK Party. We can see when young people are unhappy with something and say whatever they want to say. We support that they vent out the anger, but we hope that with time, that anger will die down.”
Zuma's Nkandla guarded and would be hard for Malema to attach: Manyi
Image: Thapelo Morebudi
MK Party (MKP) MP Mzwanele Manyi is adamant EFF leader Julius Malema's intentions to go after former president Jacob Zuma's home, Nkandla, in a legal row over “unpaid legal fees” will not be successful.
Earlier this week, Malema threatened to start a legal battle against Zuma, including going after his assets.
“Zuma owes us legal fees. We have a court order that he must pay us our money. We have instructed our lawyer to attach Nkandla so that the man pays back the money,” he said.
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Speaking to TimesLIVE on Saturday at the MKP's anniversary celebrations at Vosloorus Stadium, Ekurhuleni, Manyi was confident Zuma would not lose his house in the legal battle.
“We love the EFF, we have no war with the EFF. We also understand that they are hurting. A lot of people have been coming from that side [to MKP]. We must all understand that they are going through pain,” he said.
“We sympathise with the pain, and we are not angry at them. But at a factual level, his excellency president Zuma lives on Ingonyama Trust land, so it is unattachable, because it's not like it's private property.”
Manyi said he hoped the EFF's “anger” would calm down.
“We note that things were said in anger and we have no issue with that. When people are angry and disappointed, they will say a lot of things. We accept it, we are grown-ups in the MK Party. We can see when young people are unhappy with something and say whatever they want to say. We support that they vent out the anger, but we hope that with time, that anger will die down.”
Though the two parties work together in parliament, Malema has declared war on the MKP for recruiting EFF leaders over the past three months, calling the MKP “an enemy of the EFF”.
Malema's possible legal battle is not the only one Zuma is facing regarding Nkandla. Earlier this year, VBS Mutual Bank liquidator Anoosh Rooplal partially froze Zuma's FNB account due to him defaulting on payments on his Nkandla home loan.
FNB was instructed by the Gauteng High Court to place a hold on outgoing payments from Zuma's FNB account.
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