Opposition parties claim to respect the rule of law, but are quick to oppose it when someone exercises his constitutional right, says African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma.

At a party rally at Olympia Park Stadium in Rustenburg, Zuma said opposition parties went to the National Prosecuting Authority to make submissions to prosecute him instead of focusing on their election campaigns.

"For certain organs of the State to review such submissions is within the law, within the constitution," SABC news reported him as saying.

"What do they [opposition parties] do? They even challenge the decisions before the decisions are taken and in the middle of elections. Instead of them being busy canvassing they are busy going to court to challenge decisions that don't exist."

Zuma was referring to the Democratic Alliance (DA)'s submission to the NPA on Thursday.

The DA gave their reasons as to why they believed the NPA must prosecute Zuma.

In their submission the DA said the NPA had enough evidence, including 13 documents from Mauritius to prosecute Zuma.

At Sunday's North West rally, Zuma also called on ANC members not to disrupt meetings of other political parties because this would give opposition parties something to speak about in the media.

He said those who had left the ANC were welcome to come back.

"Some of them who had political education have realised that the ANC is their home and are coming back and we welcome them," he said.

He was referring to a number of people who had returned to the ANC after joining the Congress of the People (Cope) led by former ANC national chairperson Terror Lekota.

Sapa

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