ANC chief whip urges Zuma to quit constitution

The chief whip of South Africa’s governing political party has called on its entire leadership – including President Jacob Zuma – to step down. Jackson Mthembu said fraud charges against the finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, were politically motivated. He said the current government was worse than the apartheid state. The ANC, which liberated South Africa […]

The chief whip of South Africa’s governing political party has called on its entire leadership – including President Jacob Zuma – to step down.
Jackson Mthembu said fraud charges against the finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, were politically motivated. He said the current government was worse than the apartheid state.
The ANC, which liberated South Africa from white minority rule in 1994, suffered its worst ever electoral performance in August.
Mr Mthembu said he excluded no-one in the leadership from his call for resignations – not even himself. “President Jacob Zuma is the president of the ANC (African National Congress). When I said the entire ANC leadership that has already taken collective responsibility must take the fall, I meant everybody, myself included, including President Zuma”, he told ENCA television.