ANC top six to meet with Zuma on Sunday, likely to tell him to resign
Two options are reportedly on the table: resign voluntarily or be removed by Parliament.
ANC presidential candidate Cyril Ramaphosa sits beside the outgoing President Jacob Zuma at the ANC’s 54th National Elective Conference at Nasrec, Johannesburg, on 17 December 2017. The ANC gathers to elect new leadership, including a new party president for which Cyril Ramaphosa and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma are the candidates. Picture: Yeshiel Panchia
With mounting pressure on President Jacob Zuma to voluntarily resign before next week Thursday’s State of the Nation address (Sona) in the National Assembly, it is being reported that the ANC’s top six officials will meet with him this Sunday to tell him to step down from office.
According to a report by Sowetan, ANC sources told the paper the officials would inform Zuma to resign or face impeachment or a vote of no confidence in Parliament.
The top six leaders – who include ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, his deputy, David Mabuza, secretary-general Ace Magashule, his deputy Jesse Duarte, chairperson Gwede Mantashe and provincial chairperson Paul Mashatile – are reportedly expected to tell Zuma that they would not defend him should his future be decided in parliament.
The ANC’s national working committee (NWC), which meet on Monday at Luthuli House, resolved that the national officials should meet with Zuma and persuade him to step down as a matter of urgency. They apparently also agreed that Zuma should not be allowed to address the nation during the Sona.
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