EDITORIAL: Zuma’s world is closing in
Cosatu’s call for Zuma to step down is immensely important
The end of President Jacob Zuma seems tantalisingly near but also so far. The question on everyone’s mind is how long can he last? A crescendo of opposition is mounting against him. Cosatu’s call on Tuesday that he step down is immensely important. Together with the South Africa Communist Party (SACP), which came out with the same call a week ago, these two organisations represent a significant number of ANC members. SACP and Cosatu activists and organisers also tend to be among the most active ANC members; they make up the heart of the ANC. On Tuesday, ANC veterans also called for him to go and it emerged on Monday that the ANC’s own integrity committee had asked him to step down. These follow the many other calls from church leaders, opposition parties, civil society organisations and luminaries from within the ANC tradition. With pockets of protest starting to spring up all over and the credit ratings agencies beginning to wield the axe, Zuma’s world is closing in. But even with ...
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