A prominent Anglican Archbishop in South Africa, Thabo Makgoba has called for the replacement of Jacob Zuma as president and has urged the newly elected leadership of the ANC “to act quickly and decisively”.
Makgoba told a congregation in Cape Town that the ruling party, after replacing Zuma, should follow up with a “targeted Cabinet reshuffle”, according to News24.
The archbishop said he “cannot see how two centres of power – one centred on the party and the other on the State – can collaborate when their values seem diametrically opposed to one another”.
“I cannot see how the ANC will make a clean break with the past and set us on a new course unless the new leaders elected at Nasrec last week, supported by their MPs in Parliament, act boldly and quickly to replace Mr Zuma as President of the country, and to follow that up with a carefully targeted Cabinet reshuffle,” he added.
There have been several failed attempts in the past to impeach Jacob Zuma as head of state due to the refusal of ANC MPs to back those impeachment processes.
“If they don’t, we can see their fate written in the histories of other liberation movements in the world who have failed to adapt: they will lose power,” Makgoba said.
The ANC has elected Zuma’s deputy Cyril Ramaphosa as new leader. He has promised to fight corruption and also fix the South African economy.
Makgoba said the South African “economy is floundering, unemployment is rising and those cohorts of corruption who see they are losing influence are making ever more desperate attempts to loot what they can before their party is over. On top of that, the divisions in the ANC have led to a paralysis in decision-making and the implementation of policy. It is time to say, ‘Enough is enough’.”
Source: Africafeeds.com
