Presidency on journalist's misunderstanding of President Zuma's message

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A journalist misunderstood an isiZulu idiom and went on to write a story that President Jacob Zuma is about to take another wife. 

Speaking at a wonderful Christmas party for older persons in Savannah Park, Durban, yesterday, 23 December 2014, the President joked that he did not have "indlu yokugugela", which the journalist reported as a hint about taking another wife. 

It is unfortunate that such misrepresentation clouded the reporting of an otherwise beautiful occasion in which senior citizens were honoured and feted. 

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Mac Maharaj
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E-mail: macmaharaj@icloud.com

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