Mbete considers calls for motion of no confidence
Speaker of the House Baleka Mbete says she is aware of the 'extreme challenges and sense of anxiety our young democracy is going through'
The ANC’s national working committee meets on Monday as the party reels from the fallout of President Jacob Zuma’s shock Cabinet reshuffle, with Speaker of the House Baleka Mbete considering a motion of no confidence in Zuma that has been tabled by opposition parties. A vote of no confidence is the process that Zuma’s backers most fear, as the ANC’s parliamentary caucus has been increasingly critical of the president’s most loyal lieutenants: former communications minister Faith Muthambi, who has been moved to head up public service and administration and Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini, who has kept her post despite a near-disaster in social grants payments. With Parliament not in session, Mbete would have to call a special sitting to debate a no-confidence motion. She told a Sunday media briefing that she had received a request from the DA and EFF. She said she had dropped everything to deal with the matter. She would begin consultation with the majority party’s chie...
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