HIV activist Mark Heywood asks Cyril Ramaphosa to vote out Jacob Zuma
At a funeral service for AIDS activist Prudence Mabele, Heywood said inherent to the epidemic was corruption, violence and abuse of women, which Jacob Zuma embodies
Activist Mark Heywood has called on Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa "and other honest members of the ANC", to vote President Jacob Zuma out of office. MPs will debate the motion of no confidence in Zuma on August 8, with parties pushing for a secret ballot on the matter. The clamour for Zuma to be voted out has escalated, with ANC MPs Dr Makhosi Khoza and Pravin Gordhan — formerly finance minister — openly defying the party line, calling on the President to step down. Heywood raised the matter on Wednesday in the Rhema Bible Church in Randburg, where a funeral service was held for HIV/AIDS activist Prudence Mabele. She had openly campaigned for Zuma to go. "We will call on Deputy President Ramaphosa and other honest members of the ANC to vote president Jacob Zuma out of power on August 8. Because that’s what you wanted," Heywood said. "And because we cannot have a good response to AIDS in a corrupt government, because it is corruption and immorality and violence and the abuse of wo...
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