Zuma’s question to youth league: if I fire another minister, who will defend me?
Instead of playing Santa and giving out gifts to the elderly as he had been scheduled to do‚ President Jacob Zuma used an ANC Youth League lecture to go on the offensive. Zuma gave the strongest indication yet that he might pull a rabbit out of the hat‚ in a similar way to how he removed Nhlanhla Nene as finance minister just over a year ago‚ a move that sent the rand and other markets spiralling. Zuma said he wanted assurances from the ANC’s rank and file that he would have their support if he took a similar decision again. He recalled how he was left on his own by the party faithful and forced to reverse his decision to replace Nene with Des van Rooyen. Speaking about last year’s events‚ Zuma said he was attacked just like “they are still attacking me now”. “We were not there to defend the correct decision. The question is‚ if the president takes another decision‚ are we there to defend it? Are we alert? “The fact of the matter is that the economy is in few hands. “Now I can tell ...
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