President Jacob Zuma took a turn at the humble trough as he delivered his last official address to the ANC, saying: "I tried my best." The response was a rare moment of soliciting more than polite tepid applause: the provinces aligned to the party presidency bid of Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma - KwaZulu-Natal, Free State and North West - were on their feet. And then Zuma, who pretty much slammed anyone inside and outside the governing party who ever criticised him, issued the conference its marching orders: there could be only one president elected and once that happened, "all of us will support the one chosen by the majority. Finish and klaar... " By MARIANNE MERTEN.
It was in the off-the-script bits that President Jacob Zuma appeared to revel, and no more so than at the end of his last political report to an ANC conference as the outgoing party president.
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