UDM says a secret ballot would ensure ANC MPs are protected
Meanwhile, EFF leader Julius Malema says the ANC has never issued a statement condemning intimidation of MPs, meaning it agrees with the intimidation of MPs
In trying to secure a secret ballot for the vote of no confidence against President Jacob Zuma, the United Democratic Movement (UDM) wants to ensure ANC MPs are protected. This is among the claims made on Monday as opposition party leaders addressed thousands of protestors who had made their way to Johannesburg’s Mary Fitzgerald Square ahead of a march to the Constitutional Court, to again make their voices heard that the President must resign. Protestors chanted Zuma must fall, among other messages, en route to SA’s apex court. The march was supported by the DA, the EFF, the UDM, the African People’s Convention (APC), the Congress of the People (COPE), the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) and Agang, as well as the Save SA campaign and the Freedom Movement. It follows the march on April 12 that was dubbed the national day of unity, where opposition parties united against the President following a midnight Cabinet reshuffle at the end of March that led to two of the major ra...
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