The KwaZulu-Natal provincial government says it has accepted the ANC’s national executive committee’s (NEC’s) decision to recall President Jacob Zuma. The provincial administration is dominated by members of the ANC’s suspended provincial executive committee (PEC), who had been Zuma loyalists and rallied behind the President’s chosen successor, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, in her failed bid to lead the party. Until recently, Zuma’s backers in the province had argued for him to remain in office until his term came to an end in 2019. In his interview with the SABC on Wednesday, Zuma said he was worried about a possible outbreak of violence‚ and that he wanted to "arrest the situation" by extending his stay in office. On the same day the KwaZulu-Natal provincial government opened its three-day lekgotla, where premier Willies Mchunu said the administration supported the NEC’s decision to recall Zuma. "A few days ago the governing ANC recalled its deployee, President of the Republic Jacob Zum...
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