Defiant Zuma refuses to resign
The president says he has done nothing wrong and ‘no one has ever provided the reasons’ for him to go
President Jacob Zuma told the SABC on Wednesday that he will not resign, adding that he has never defied the leadership of the ANC and this “will be the first time” He did say he was open to further discussion and that if Parliament removed him, he would be out. Zuma said he had done nothing wrong and “no one has ever provided the reasons” for him to go. “I found it in a sense very unfair to me that this issue has been raised all the time. I need to be furnished with what I have done … there are processes in the ANC like disciplinary processes. During the interview he also asked why there was such a rush. “What is the rush? I’ve been asking this all the time.” He added that he was being victimised by the ANC. “I am being victimised here,” Zuma said after he went into detail as to what the discussions were between him, Ramaphosa and the ANC leadership. Zuma said it was the first time he felt the leadership of the ANC was unfair. "I'm not defying. I said I don't agree with the decisio...
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