If President Jacob Zuma does not jump‚ he will be pushed‚ Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane warned on Saturday — adding that one man could not hold 56-million South Africans hostage. Maimane said the groundswell of unity among South Africans‚ from the clergy to NGOs; from the opposition to senior members within the ANC‚ following what he referred to as Zuma’s hostile takeover of the Treasury and "selling off the country to a cabal of looters and liars" left the president two options: jump or be pushed. "Zuma’s self-interested decision to fire capable and trusted Treasury leadership and replace them with servants of corruption has sparked the country into action. "Already a petition on noconfidence.co.za has received close to 300‚000 signatures‚ and counting‚ all calling for Zuma to be removed; a wave of protests swept across the country’s major capitals of Cape Town and Tshwane; both the Nelson Mandela and Ahmed Kathrada Foundations have spoken out strongly against the ‘the f...
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