For me, there is a critical missing element in the ANC debate about voting on the issue of President Jacob Zuma. When constructing the rules of any political party, consideration would be given and rules developed for retaining unity on a finally agreed path. Nobody would expect at that stage that any leader would want to commit a crime. Let us consider an extreme hypothetical case. Say the dominant faction of a political party wanted to exterminate a section of the population and required a vote to finalise that policy. Would anyone expect the rules to be trotted out to ensure all had to vote for it? This policy has happened in our human history and neither in legal nor any ethical or moral terms has the defence "I did it because I was ordered to" been accepted by anyone, and it can’t be the case here. The situation in the ANC is not that extreme but it involves the same principle: by any reasonable measure Zuma has been, and unfortunately continues to be, a criminal disaster for S...
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