Zuma could be fired next year, says Gwede Mantashe
'What I am saying is that his term [as state president] ends in 2019, but beyond December the conversation becomes less complex'
08 June 2017 - 07:57
ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe has suggested President Jacob Zuma could be out of the Union Buildings by early next year if his preferred candidate loses in December. Addressing foreign journalists in Johannesburg yesterday, Mantashe said the ANC was unable to remove Zuma now because of a resolution the party adopted in Polokwane that the president of the ANC should be the party’s presidential candidate.
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