RANJENI MUNUSAMY: The two questions that haunt the ANC after #ZumaVote
The facade of a united party that closes ranks in times of trouble has been shattered
When the music stops and the face-saving has passed‚ the African National Congress has to do some serious soul searching. A big celebration party was held outside Parliament on Tuesday evening after the motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma failed. But this was a mop-up operation rather than a celebration of victory. Zuma arrived to rapturous applause and thanked his supporters for defending the ANC. He said his detractors had tried to use “technicalities in Parliament to take over from the ANC”. Out of 384 votes in total‚ 177 MPs voted in favour of the motion and 198 against. Nine people abstained. This was not a vote against the ANC‚ as Zuma would like people to believe. At least 26 ANC MPs voted in support of the motion and about eight others could have abstained. Only the Pan Africanist Congress’ one MP had indicated during the debate that he would abstain. This means an estimated 34 ANC MPs rebelled against the party line to vote against the motion. They could do so b...
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