Zuma breached his oath of office and must step down, Kgalema Motlanthe says
President Jacob Zuma should step down, his predecessor Kgalema Motlanthe says. "Simply because the apex court, the highest court in the land, has judged him to have breached [his] oath of office," Motlanthe said when asked in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Monday if Zuma should resign. "That in itself makes it difficult for him to demand the kind of respect, which would be able to rally and unite the various sections of the South African population." Zuma is coming under increased pressure from inside the ANC after sweeping Cabinet changes last week, which sent the rand tumbling and borrowing costs soaring. Last March, the Constitutional Court found he had flouted the Constitution by ignoring a ruling by the public protector that he repay some of the taxpayer money spent on his private residence.
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