The ANC, Thabo Mbeki Foundation, Cosatu and the SACP are all out for Zuma’s blood
ANC national chairman Gwede Mantashe says if President Jacob Zuma does not resign‚ the ANC will be left with no choice but to let him be "fried" by "vultures" through a vote of no confidence in Parliament.Mantashe was addressing ANC members in Butterworth in the Eastern Cape as part of the Nelson Mandela centenary celebrations.He told the crowd that the ANC national executive committee (NEC) had given Zuma the option of taking the dignified route by tendering his resignation as President, but Zuma has refused. Mantashe said the ball remained in Zuma’s court‚ but he may have to face the music in Parliament."We trust that President Zuma will understand that we are not fighting him … because if he does not resign he will be disrespected by the vultures in Parliament‚" said Mantashe. "When you resist the call to resign, you leave us no choice but to let you fry in the vote of no-confidence because it means you do not respect the organisation."He added that it was the ANC’s "authority to...
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