ANC body asked Zuma to quit
Commission’s report showed that integrity commission members had in fact asked Zuma to resign but that he had declined
When ANC veteran Cheryl Carolus told journalists earlier in 2017 that the party’s integrity commission had made a finding against President Jacob Zuma and had asked him to resign, secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said she was "imagining" that this had happened. However, City Press on Sunday reported that it had obtained the commission’s report, which showed that its members had in fact asked Zuma to resign but that he had declined. The newspaper reported that Zuma had refused to resign because he said this would allow western governments to capture the party and betray the revolution. Former president Thabo Mbeki was asked to resign by a structure of the ANC — the national executive committee — and he complied in 2008. The integrity commission is made up of ANC stalwarts such as Andrew Mlangeni, who chairs it, Frene Ginwala and Sophie de Bruyn. It was established following the ANC’s Mangaung conference in 2012, where delegates resolved that "more urgent steps should be taken to prot...
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