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    ANC NEC to discuss Zuma’s early exit

    By Agency Staff23 May 2017
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    The top leadership of the ANC will discuss removing President Jacob Zuma from his post at a 26-28 May meeting, according to two senior party officials who will be in attendance.

    The ANC’s national executive committee is due to discuss a motion of no confidence in Zuma that has been filed by opposition parties in parliament. Some members of the panel will also raise the possibility of removing Zuma as the nation’s president, according to the party officials, who sit on the decision-making panel and asked not to be identified because they aren’t authorised to speak publicly on the matter. The rand gained as much as 1,5% against the dollar.

    While the committee rejected the possibility of ousting Zuma at a meeting in November, opposition to his rule has mounted within the party’s ranks following his 31 March decision to fire Pravin Gordhan as finance minister, a move that prompted S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings to downgrade the nation’s sovereign credit rating to junk.

    The ANC will want to avoid a situation in which its lawmakers back the opposition motion to force Zuma to resign, said Anthony Butler, a political science professor at the University of Cape Town.

    “The decision to remove Zuma as president of the country would be taken by the NEC and then communicated to the parliamentary caucus,” he said. “A vote of no confidence would be, in the ANC’s logic, a dangerous thing, as it could create serious intra-party conflict and an inability to regroup.”

    ANC spokesman Zizi Kodwa said that while the agenda will only set at the meeting, the committee won’t discuss Zuma’s removal.

    The constitutional court is considering whether to agree to an opposition party call for a secret ballot on the no-confidence motion in Zuma.

    The chances of Zuma being recalled remain low, Peter Attard Montalto, a London-based economist at Nomura International, said by e-mail.

    “We expect actually the NEC meeting this weekend to send a formal instruction to the national assembly caucus to not vote for the no-confidence motion regardless of the secret ballot case outcome,” he said.

    Zuma is due to step down as ANC leader in December and as president in 2019. His term has been marred by a succession of scandals, including a finding by the nation’s top court that he violated his oath of office by refusing to repay taxpayer money spent on his private home. Labour unions and the South African Communist Party, which form part of the country’s ruling coalition, have called for his replacement.

    “The NEC can force Zuma to stop being president of the country, but not of the ANC as this can only be done at an electoral conference,” Butler said.  — (c) 2017 Bloomberg LP



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