The fate of the president of South Africa Jacob Zuma will be known on Wednesday when his deputy and now leader of the African National Congress (ANC) addresses parliament.
ANC leader Cyril Ramaphosa is to outline Zuma’s fate when he meets lawmakers at the national assembly.
The house speaker Baleka Mbete suggested that South Africans would learn of Zuma’s fate within hours when she told eNCA TV that “In this day there will be some progress which the president of the ANC will be ready to come back to us about.”
Jacob Zuma would not be delivering a planned speech in parliament on the state of his country after the speaker of parliament, Baleka Mbete, announced the postponement of the address.
Mbete said on Tuesday that the president’s state of the nation address, which had been scheduled for Thursday, would now be rescheduled following a week of dramatic events within the ruling African National Congress (ANC).
There is pressure on Mr. Zuma to step down as President as he faces another no confidence vote in the South African parliament later this month.
On Sunday when leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) met him, Mr. Zuma is reported by local media to have said that the “people still love him”.
Mr. Zuma refused to stepdown in that meeting which necessitated another meeting among the leadership of the ANC on Monday to discuss his future.
The embattled president reportedly told party’s leaders that he had done nothing wrong and that only the national executive committee (NEC) had the powers to recall him of which he requested to make a presentation to.
Source: Africafeeds.com
