Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 18-02-2018
Now that Jacob Zuma has resigned as the President of the Republic of South Africa, it’s understood, it took hours of persuasion from lawyers, family members and senior African National Congress (ANC) leaders to convince him that his time was up.
People with intimate knowledge of the discussions told The City Press that Zuma was prepared to go to the brink on the matter.
The paper reports Zuma was consulting his lawyers and his family members who provided input and told him he must just let it go because he could not win.
City Press reports the four-hour delay behind Zuma’s expected resignation announcement was his attempt to buy time. He wanted to know what the party’s parliamentary caucus had said about the proposal to vote with the opposition and remove him from office.
According to those who attended the meeting, only one person, deputy communications minister Tandi Mahambehlala, tried to defend him.
The paper says when Zuma later resigned, his speech was so disjointed that the bulk of the content suggested he was not going to resign and that most of it was a sanitised version of the SABC interview.
Zuma was replaced as President of the country by Cyril Ramaphosa who was elected unopposed and sworn in as leader of the country on Thursday.
Meanwhile it’s believed Zuma may face disciplinary action from the ANC for his conduct following NEC’s order that he step down.
In the interview with the SABC, Zuma made it known he disagreed with the NEC’s decision and said he was receiving unfair treatment and had not been told what he had done wrong.
Cyril Ramaphosa replaced Zuma as the 5th president of the country when he was elected unopposed and sworn in on Thursday by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng.
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