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ALL TALK: President Jacob Zuma was interviewed by the British Broadcasting Corporation. PHOTO: GCIS

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"As you know, I grew up where there are a lot of flowers," Zuma told journalists in Pretoria.

"As a herdboy, I would walk around collecting flowers; many of them, I did not know their names. Thank you very much for the honour."

The flower is called Phalaenopsis Jacob Zuma.

President of the ROS Tinus Oberholzer presented the flower to Zuma at the Union Buildings.

"There are very few people in South Africa with orchids named after them."

Former president Nelson Mandela had an orchid named after him but that was done in Singapore, he said.

"We thought that in celebration of the forthcoming orchid show, we would honour the current president (Jacob Zuma) by naming the orchid after him."

Zuma was given the option to choose from four different Phalaenopsis orchids.

"He chose the one with the bright yellow colouring," said Oberholzer, adding that it reminded him of butterflies from during his childhood days.

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Sat May 25 04:38:18 SAST 2013 ::

Sep 21, 2012

MommaC

Show us a picture of the orchid, is it double headed? At least yellow is an appropriate colour
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Sep 21, 2012

Pointman

Orchid eh! I hear it has special characteristics - its anthers and stigma are on the outside.
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Sep 21, 2012

Publc2

Nxa,it start to bother me now,everything hornoured to the great man(Mandela) is now hornoured to (st.upid)boys.The only thing left is now the noble peace price
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Sep 21, 2012

Publc2

Pointman
Orchid eh! I hear it has special characteristics - its anthers and stigma are on the outside.
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Representing the "Spear" hehehehe
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Sep 21, 2012

jerico

He chose the one with the bright yellow colouring," said Oberholzer, adding that it reminded him of butterflies from during his childhood days."

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while we were busy studying hard to he was busy trying to be Mr Valentine, look now he is our president.
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Sep 21, 2012

Kaylae

Eish I pity the poor orchid
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Sep 21, 2012

MAWARAWARA

@Publc2
you are so cute you know nge short hair eish!!
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Sep 21, 2012

Mdala

Whether you like or not the people who honoured him are all sane and stable minded and so is the president of the country.
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Sep 21, 2012

mashima?

"I would walk around collecting the flowers, many of them". JZ usually the flowers are associated with women, so the charecter repeat itself here, Now you are collecting Wu ''''man.
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Sep 21, 2012

MorenaWaPolelo

Bloggers is it true that Phalaenopsis means "The Spear of" please help?
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