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NATASHA MARRIAN: Chance for ANC MPs to put country first
The motion of no confidence in the president represents a prime opportunity for the party to deal with the Zuma issue once and for all
ANC MPs are in an unenviable position. The coming motion of no confidence has them in a fix. Two former presidents, Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe, have put forward compelling arguments, encouraging them to vote with their conscience and to do what is in the national interest. Presidential hopeful Cyril Ramaphosa should be leading from the front by joining the call by respected party leaders for MPs to vote in the national interest. But this means not following the ANC line that no party MP should support a motion of no confidence against President Jacob Zuma. This is the most glaring example since 1994 of the ANC working against the national interest and a staggering number of party MPs know it. While Zuma’s backers have vowed to fight attempts at "regime change", the ANC’s grip on the imagination of the society it led to freedom continues to wane.Ironically, it is Zuma himself who is leading the governing party down the road to destruction and accelerating the onset of the part...
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