Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 02-12-2016
A new calculator app parodying President Jacob Zuma’s inability to pronounce certain big numbers has garnered huge downloads.
Released in December last year the app is available free of charge on the Google Play and iOS stores.
The Zumalator app uses Zuma’s voice in solutions to calculations. It uses famous quotes around Number One’s number phrasing as well as a “Nkandla” button.
Phrases such as “my laughing’s not hurtful, it’s healthy” and “I think it’s between seventy-eight-hundred” are included in the app.
Last year, Zuma sparked local laughter when a video of him revealed how he struggled to read out membership figures of the ANC.
In the clip, Zuma is heard saying: “Our membership figures stood at seven hundred and sixty nine thousand, eight hundred and …seven hundred, listen properly, seven hundred and sixty nine thousand, eight hundred and twenty…huh.. and seventy members down from one hundred and, one hundred and point two million in 2012.”
App developer Justin Nothling, told Fin24 he was stunned to see how downloads of the app have picked up, shortly after Zuma’s sacking of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene.
– Fin24
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