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The leadership of the African National Congress in South Africa is to hold an emergency meeting on Monday with the agenda focusing on the future of President Jacob Zuma.

Talks for Mr. Zuma to go on Sunday did not end well as he refused to be forced out, according to media reports.

Since the change of leadership in the ANC last year, now led by deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa there have been calls for Mr. Zuma who has been in power since 2009 to resign but he has ignored those calls.

The ANC has now summoned its National Working Committee (NWC) to meet at the party’s Luthuli House headquarters in downtown Johannesburg over the matter.

Jacob Zuma would face another no-confidence vote later this month after the country’s parliament scheduled a motion of no-confidence against him.

The motion which was filed by the opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party will be debated on February 22.

The EFF party wrote a letter to parliamentary speaker Baleka Mbete this week asking her to schedule the vote before the president’s state of the nation address to parliament on February 8.

The parliament in a statement said “Ms Mbete informed EFF leader Mr Julius Malema that she had decided to schedule their requested motion of no confidence in the President for 22 February.”

Jacob Zuma has survived several no-confidence votes during his presidency but following the election of his deputy Cyril Ramaphosa as new leader of the African National Congress (ANC) party in December, the calls for Zuma to go have grown louder.

 

Source: Africafeeds.com

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