Zuma targeted IEC after failing to deliver two-thirds majority and wanted to play victim again — analyst

Zuma described the commission, which he established while president, as a “conspiracy plot against him” to “assassinate” his character and targeted commission head chief justice Raymond Zondo. He took the same stance of being a victim of a “political plot” in 2005 when his fellow struggle fighter Judson Kuzwayo’s daughter Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo opened a case of rape against him. He was acquitted of rape charges by judge Willem van der Merwe in the Johannesburg high court in 2006. “Since 2005, he presents himself as a victim, a political victim. He made himself …