{{Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula lambasted those who booed President Jacob Zuma when he walked onto the pitch at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg on Wednesday evening. }} <\/p>\n
“These wolves hidden in the sheep skin were not victorious in their booing,” Mbalula said in Johannesburg on Thursday.<\/p>\n
“The person they are trying to elevate in the personae of our president using platforms of national importance, they must know they have failed.<\/p>\n
“We will defeat them politically, for all their ideas they stand for, because they are hooligans; cowards of non-description.”<\/p>\n
Jeers and boos rang out as Zuma’s name was called out and he walked onto the field for the post-match ceremony following Bafana Bafana’s 5-0 thrashing by Brazil in an international friendly.<\/p>\n
Zuma was ceremonially handing over the hosting of the Fifa World Cup to Brazil, the host nation for the 2014 edition starting in June.<\/p>\n
He was joined on a stage by Mbalula, SA Football Association president Danny Jordaan and several Brazilian dignitaries, who received a commemorative plaque marking the event.<\/p>\n
Zuma was famously booed at the memorial service for former president Nelson Mandela at the same venue in December last year.<\/p>\n
Mbalula said political opponents should try to defeat a person through their ideas, rather than by booing them.<\/p>\n
“They will be defeated because President Jacob Zuma will not diminish because of the booing. He is a tsunami, more than a hurricane,” Mbalula said.<\/p>\n
“All of their plans, infused in Satanism at best, will never succeed in the future because their plans are nothing else but filled with evil.”<\/p>\n
He said the attempt to embarrass the President and the country did not succeed as the celebrations on the night and the sounds of vuvuzelas drowned out their jeers.<\/p>\n
“From what I’ve seen yesterday, I would like to congratulate the people of South Africa. It was a glorious moment – there was a vibe and even though it was raining, people came out in their numbers.”<\/p>\n
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