President Jacob Zuma has effectively thrown the ball into Parliament’s court after he refused to step down voluntarily. Zuma told party officials on Sunday night that he would not resign and that he did not feel he had done anything to warrant this. Business Day understands that the ANC’s parliamentary caucus is now set to be kicked into touch to get the ball rolling on Zuma’s removal through constitutional processes — a motion of no confidence, brought by the ANC itself. According to a number of senior ANC leaders, Zuma has left the party with little option but to go the parliamentary route. But first, this decision has to pass through internal ANC structures, the ANC’s national working committee (NWC), which met on Monday, and then its national executive committee (NEC), which insiders hope could take place in the coming days. The NWC was expected to receive a report back from the officials after the structure mandated them to meet Zuma and ask him to resign voluntarily. The meeti...
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