RANJENI MUNUSAMY: It is finally D-day for Jacob Zuma
'The clock is now ticking. Zuma must resign or be recalled by the NEC on Monday'
Many people forget that President Jacob Zuma and ANC leader Cyril Ramaphosa are South Africa’s most accomplished negotiators. They are so skilled at high-stakes negotiations and mediation that we exported their talents to conflict zones in other parts of the world.So when the two went head to head, as they did over the past week, it was to be expected that they would stare each other down. After all, they are negotiating over the presidency – which they are both personally and politically vested in. Negotiations can go on in perpetuity. Ramaphosa, it would seem, decided he has had enough. After a week of trying to coax Zuma to step down and negotiate an exit package, Ramaphosa intimated on Sunday that a special NEC meeting on Monday would be the cut-off point for the transition process to conclude. As reported in the Sunday Times, Ramaphosa had presented Zuma with legal options available to him to avoid prosecution or receive reduced sentences in the state capture cases. The reason ...
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