The Zuma moral code

In the wake of President Jacob Zuma’s call for a moral dialogue, we chronicle his moral credentials:

• My culture is not your culture;
• My morals are not your morals;
• Live beyond your means;
• Make your friends pay your bills;
• Befriend conman who lie about their academic qualifications;
• Chair the National Aids Council and have multiple sexual partners;
• Knowingly sleep with someone HIV positive without a condom;
• Chair the Moral Regeneration Campaign and be implicated in corruption with a convicted fraudster;
• Sleep with some of your friends daughters;
• Sing liberation songs to score personal points against your opponents;
• Use your friends to help you climb to the top of the political ladder and dump them afterwards;
• Demand that criminal charges against you be dropped without trial;
• Fight prosecutors until they drop criminal charges against you for invalid reasons;
• Pretend to care for the poor until they vote you president of the country;
• Be intolerant towards the media and blame them for negative publicity over your dishonorable behavior;
• Be a womanizer and convert to polygamy by marrying each and every woman in your web of extramarital affairs;
• Become president of a country and marry more than one spouse to burden the national budget;
• Tell everyone what they want to hear and not the truth;
• Have a thin-skin and always apologize when you are under fire; and
• Pretend to be interested in good morals in the hope that people will forget your scandals.