Secret ANC talks under way on early exit for Jacob Zuma
With Ramaphosa elected ANC president, concern is growing among people close to Zuma that there will be immediate attempts to recall him
Senior ANC leaders are engaged in urgent secret talks to negotiate an exit for President Jacob Zuma, possibly as early as next month, the Sunday Times reports. Surprisingly, the talks are being driven by close allies of the president who are trying to negotiate a way for Zuma to leave office without him being embarrassed. With Cyril Ramaphosa having been elected ANC president this week, concern is growing among people close to Zuma that there will be immediate attempts to recall him. On Sunday Anglican Church Archbishop Thabo Makgoba is expected to exert pressure on Ramaphosa to force Zuma out. Church insiders say Makgoba would use his Christmas sermon to call on the national executive committee, backed by the party’s MPs, to act "boldly and quickly" to remove Zuma. On Friday Zuma gave his enemies ammunition to call for his head as early as the first NEC meeting next month, when he lodged an appeal against a judgment by the High Court in Pretoria that ordered him to establish a comm...
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