First Ace Magashule compared Jacob Zuma's suffering to the suffering of Jesus Christ. Now the Free State ANC chairperson says the ANC should follow Zuma in the same way that people in church follow Jesus.
In the last speech of the afternoon, he told the nearly 900 delegates in the Bloemfontein city hall that the ANC should show unity and follow Zuma everywhere he went.
"In church they sing that they will follow Jesus wherever he goes. That's how we should be about Jacob Zuma," he said to loud applause.
He started off with a well-known hymn expressing exactly this sentiment, in which the name of Jesus has been replaced by that of Jacob Zuma.
After his speech he explained that the song had been used as early as the 1960s to express in song the ANC's loyalty to the late Albert Luthuli, an ANC icon and former leader of the party.
"If you go to the big churches, you will see there are thousands of people, but they are so quiet and disciplined. We also want to be like that. And we want to show unity in the way we follow Zuma."
It is not the first time that prominent ANC members have used Christian references while talking about the party and Zuma.
Last year Magashule told a crowd outside the Appeal Court in Bloemfontein that Zuma's "suffering at the hands of people who persecute and humiliate him", was similar to the suffering Jesus had to bear.
Zuma himself has said the ANC would rule "until Jesus returns".
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