POLITICAL WEEK AHEAD: Zuma in China as crises engulf governing party
PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma’s overseas working jaunt continues this week as crises engulf his administration and the ANC here at home. Zuma is at the Group of 20 meeting in China with Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, whose ministry is one of the crisis-ridden fronts. The president will remain in China for the second Investing in Africa Forum taking place on Wednesday. On the home front, fires rage on as Gordhan faces possible charges for his role in establishing a so-called rogue unit at the South African Revenue Service when he was commissioner of the tax authority. Zuma himself is facing growing calls for his resignation from office, with the latest salvo fired by ANC stalwart Zola Skweyiya. Opposition parties, the ANC and the South African Communist Party have appealed for the president to discipline Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane for saying in a statement that the Cabinet had taken a decision to call on Zuma to appoint a judicial inquiry into the closing of the Gupta family...
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