No place for vendettas and vindictiveness in the ANC, MK veterans say
President Jacob Zuma’s future as the leader of the country must be dealt with thoroughly by the ANC’s new national executive committee, and there should be "no place for vendettas and vindictiveness"‚ the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) says. The call by the association came amid a growing push for Zuma to resign and for newly elected ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa to take over the reins, after he narrowly beat his contender, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, at the party’s elective conference in December. "The national executive committee of the ANC must be given the opportunity to deal with this matter — as it should with all other issues that it needs to address — in a manner that will forge unity and the effectiveness execution of policy‚" MKMVA president Kebby Maphatsoe said on Monday. "We therefore‚ especially‚ call for unnecessary divisive pressure with regards to the future of President Jacob Zuma as president of the Republic of SA to be avoided." In 2017, vario...
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