Call grows for Zuma to quit

The ANC's Sefako Makgatho branch in Joburg has become the latest party structure to call for President Zuma to resign. File picture: Oupa Mokoena

The ANC's Sefako Makgatho branch in Joburg has become the latest party structure to call for President Zuma to resign. File picture: Oupa Mokoena

Published Sep 1, 2016

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Johannesburg - More ANC structures are seeking President Jacob Zuma’s removal following the party’s electoral disaster that saw three key metros fall to the DA.

The ANC’s Sefako Makgatho branch in Joburg has become the latest party structure to call for Zuma to resign, together with the national executive committee, which is viewed as sympathetic towards him.

It said Zuma’s “lack of integrity and morals”, the corruption charges, and the Constitutional Court judgment on Nkandla were some of the issues raised by voters during the election campaign.

This comes after party structures in the Nelson Mandela Bay and Buffalo City metros in the Eastern Cape called for the ANC leader to resign, after the ANC’s national support dropped from 62 percent to 54 percent during the August municipal elections.

The Sefako Makgatho branch has also endorsed calls by the SACP for a consultative conference to address challenges dogging the party.

The branch said it was now lobbying other ANC structures to support its resolutions of a special branch general meeting held on Tuesday.

It called for the implementation of free, quality education and the formation of a task team of ANC stalwarts to take the party to a national consultative conference.

Branch chairman Sasabona Manganye and secretary Mpumeleli Vabaza said they were “lobbying other structures of the organisation” to support their resolutions.

The ANC Youth League has called for an early conference to elect a new leadership of the ANC. Responding to the call on Tuesday, ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said the idea was not suppressed, but could be debated only by ANC structures.

The early elective conference call would be welcome if it was aimed at “unifying the ANC and providing leadership to society”, Mantashe said.

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