Former South African National Defence Force head Siphiwe Nyanda says the ANC should reconsider being led by President Jacob Zuma‚ after Friday’s court ruling. "I think it’s a significant ruling for the president, as well as the ANC itself, because it’s very difficult to see how the ANC proceeds with a president [after] its conference who’s also the president of the country with this millstone around everybody’s neck‚" said Nyanda. The ANC is planning to vote for a successor to Zuma as its leader in December. His term as the country’s president runs until the next general election‚ scheduled for 2019. Nyanda was speaking on Friday, on the sidelines of the three-day ANC Veterans League conference in Boksburg‚ east of Johannesburg. On Friday, the Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed the application brought by Zuma and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) in a bid to overturn a high court judgment ordering that corruption charges against the president can be reinstated. "It’s an encumb...
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