Mbete has Zuma's resignation letter, Parliament set to elect new president
ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu is confident the ANC can see off any threatened opposition challenge to Cyril Ramaphosa's election
Jacob Zuma has formally tendered his resignation, and SA could have a new president by midafternoon on Thursday. ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu has instructed all of the party’s 249 MPs to attend Thursday’s special sitting of the National Assembly. Mthembu said he had called “a three-line whip‚” which means no ANC MP is allowed to be absent‚ unless under exceptional circumstances. “The three-line whip was called long before yesterday‚ so all members of the ANC have been called in and all of them are here‚ except those of course who cannot be here because of illness and so on‚” he said. “I am confident that we’ll have almost all ANC MPs in attendance here. We have done headcounts (because) it’s my duty to do headcounts of all. So caucus is confident that everybody will be here‚ except those who‚ for very good reasons‚ can’t be here. Like one or two who are abroad.” National Assembly speaker Baleka Mbete received a letter from Zuma on Thursday morning informing her of his resignation ...
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