"One cannot say, when [a person] does not have the majority that the ANC has, that he needs the same voting power. That is not democratic. When the ANC says blue, it says blue. That is democracy and it is voting.… It is the majority view being heard clearly. When the member says red and we do not hear it, it is not our problem. This is democracy in practice." (Jacob Zuma, November 2002) In August 2015, answering questions in the National Assembly, President Jacob Zuma said the following about Rwandan President Paul Kagame: "For an example, there have been developments in other countries, wherein one of the leaders [indistinct] all of us, because, he felt, there are things he still needs to do, he went to the people and asked for a referendum, and the people said, ‘you stay’. That’s democracy. And then he has gone to parliament to enact a law, to make that legal, because the people said so. That has just happened in Rwanda." Kagame won the referendum in question by 98%. The Rwandan s...
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