EFF leader Julius Malema has called on the ANC to leave President Jacob Zuma to the EFF. "Leave him to us. It looks like this guy has defeated you‚" Malema said, following the party’s plenum meeting held over the weekend in Braamfontein‚ Johannesburg. Malema’s remarks came as reports emerged that Zuma had refused to resign when the ANC top six officials‚ including ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa‚ had asked him to step down on Sunday night. Malema also revealed that his party was considering interdicting Zuma from delivering the State of the Nation Address (Sona). "If his party says he must go. Why must he speak?" He said a motion of no confidence in Zuma was going to be tabled in parliament on Thursday. This is despite the fact that National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete has declined the EFF request for a motion to be debated before the Sona. Malema argued that Zuma has defied his own party‚ the ANC‚ and that he would do it again. "Sona must come. Our people need to know the state of ...
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