RANJENI MUNUSAMY: The great Zuma recall bungle suggests chaos in the ANC
'Magashule was unable to say when exactly Zuma would be resigning, if in fact he will, and what the ANC would do if the president defied the NEC decision'
As if the ANC has not already made a hash of governing South Africa, it is now unable to explain why it has decided to recall President Jacob Zuma from office. It seems that after a 13-hour meeting of the ANC national executive committee at which the decision was taken, the party still cannot give South Africa an explanation as to why a democratically elected president is again being removed from office.The ANC’s secretary general, Ace Magashule, in fact said that Zuma has done nothing wrong. There are, of course, a litany of reasons why Zuma is unworthy of the position and the decision is long overdue. But at a media briefing at the ANC headquarters on Tuesday, Magashule would only say that the ANC prefers that its new leader, Cyril Ramaphosa, be the president of the country and deliver the 2018 State of the Nation Address. Magashule said the ANC’s officials had informed the NEC on Monday that Zuma had agreed in principle to resign and had proposed time frames extending from three ...
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