STATE OF THE NATION
Save SA leader roundly renounces Zuma in alternative Sona
Businessman Sipho Pityana accuses President Jacob Zuma of everything from failing SA’s youth to promoting racism in his ‘real’ state of the nation address
"We have to stop the Zuma nightmare and begin to dream again‚" businessman Sipho Pityana, who also heads up the Save SA movement, said on Wednesday as he delivered a call for South Africans to pressure President Jacob Zuma to step down. Pityana delivered what he called "the real state of the nation address" at St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town. Pityana urged the Speaker of the House to not address President Jacob Zuma as "honourable" when she invites him to present his state of the nation address tomorrow night. "He shouldn’t be addressing us as a nation in the capacity of a president‚ for he has broken his contractual relationship with us as citizens ... Instead‚ Parliament should be telling us when it intends to hold him to account following the Constitutional Court judgment on the ‘Secure in Comfort Report’ relating to use of taxpayer funds on his private homestead at Nkandla," Pityana said. "Evidence suggests that despite a mandate from both the Constitution and the party you l...
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