President Jacob Zuma may have narrowly escaped defeat in an unprecedented secret poll in the vote on a motion of no confidence against him on Tuesday‚ but the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal has described his victory as “a humiliating defeat for imperial forces". “Once again imperialism and the imperial forces coalescing with their domestic stooges‚ represented by a coalition of opposition parties‚ have suffered a humiliating defeat‚” said the ANC in a statement.

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