Zuma faces no confidence vote at ANC NEC - report

A motion of no confidence in President Zuma has reportedly been tabled at a meeting of the ANC's senior executive members. File picture: Masi Losi

A motion of no confidence in President Zuma has reportedly been tabled at a meeting of the ANC's senior executive members. File picture: Masi Losi

Published May 27, 2017

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Cape Town - Senior ANC members attending the ruling  party's National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting tabled a motion of no

confidence on Saturday against president Jacob Zuma, News24

reported on its website.

Citing four unnamed sources with direct knowledge of the

meeting of the NEC, News24 said

the motion of no confidence was proposed by a senior NEC member

and supported by the current health minister and his deputy,

among others.

The ANC's spokesman Zizi Kodwa, who earlier in the week

denied a Bloomberg report saying Zuma's removal would be

discussed, was not immediately available on Saturday evening.

Earlier the ANC's secretary general, Gwede Mantashe, told

reporters that Zuma's removal was not on the NEC agenda.

"We are reading in newspapers that there is going to be

blood on the floor. We have not seen that blood on the floor,

yet," Mantashe said in comments broadcast live on eNCA

television.

Zuma has been under increasing pressure to step down from

party veterans and members of the African National Congress's

communist and union alliance partners, as a series of scandals

threaten to erode the ruling party's dominance before the 2019

general vote.

The Public Protector published

a report in November that alleged Zuma was influenced by the

Guptas. Zuma resisted calls to resign over those claims, which both

he and the Guptas have denied.

The ANC stood by Zuma at a similar meeting in November in a

debate about whether he should step down, and analysts

discounted suggestions that he might be ousted or might quit

before his term as party head ends in December.

The NEC discussions continue on Sunday. 

Reuters

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