Jacob Zuma would change the Constitution and scrap the system of secret voting if his MK party won the 29 May elections.
Despite being elected twice as President in a secret ballot electoral system, Zuma has said it ‘robs’ voters and should be scrapped, TimesLIVE reports.
Speaking at a party rally at the weekend, Zuma said: ‘If you are black and do not vote with fellow blacks, you will die without getting sick. We are not playing this time around. If it was up to me, I would say every black person must pass before me to see which party they voted for and stop this thing of a secret vote. Why would you hide when you vote for something you love? When we govern, we will change voting laws and there will be no secret vote system.
‘The negotiations were not the last stop for our freedom. How can we say we are free, but our land is in the hands of white people? What made us say the Constitution is No 1 but it has never removed doubt about the Land Act? Once we take over, we will change the law urgently.’
Unisa political analyst Professor Dirk Kotze told TimesLIVE that what Zuma had in mind was unconstitutional and would demolish democracy.
Kotze said: ‘The talk about “the vote must be public” is unheard of, not only in South Africa but all over the world. The only place it happens is in Eswatini.’
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