Should Jacob Zuma heed calls for him to step aside as president of the country‚ he will be entitled to his salary and most of the perks he enjoyed in office – for the rest of his life.
He would be paid his annual R2‚989‚845 salary after stepping down‚ be provided with security and an official vehicle‚ an office and a secretary and be entitled to free domestic flights on the national airline.
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The Democratic Alliance (DA) says South Afrika cannot expected to sit around and wait with no political certenty.
CAPE TOWN – There are growing calls for a motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma scheduled for later this month to be brought forward if he refuses to step down.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) says that South Africans cannot be expected to sit around and wait with no political certainty.
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The so-called state-of-the-nation speech that would take place on Thursday has been delayed by at least a week.
Heads of State ,Jacob Zuma refused to resign after the top ANC members requested him to do so on Sunday.
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After refusing to vacate his office, President Jacob Zuma has reportedly agreed to resign as head of state, just hours after meeting ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa at a “constructive meeting” in Cape Town.
Zuma initially refused to resign after meeting with the ANC’s top six officials on Monday, and after the party convened a special national working committee (NWC) meeting on Tuesday, a decision on his fate was expected to be made on Wednesday.
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The SA Communist Party (SACP) issued a statement stating that Jacob Zuma intends to fire Cyril Ramaphosa as the country’s deputy president and replace him with his ex Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
The SAKP further claims that Zuma wants to use a Zulu regiment (Anabutho) to protect him in his post as president.
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Public healthcare services were better during apartheid than they are now under the ANC government, EFF leader Julius Malema claimed on Monday.
Malema was referring to what he called a “national health crisis”, which, he said, the EFF is planning to expose.
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The newly appointed deputy president of the ANC, David Mabuza, has received a protection order against him that prevents him from interfering with Frederick Daniel’s business interests, as well as preventing him from contacting Daniel’s family and employers.
Daniel, a developer and environmental keeper, claims that Mabuza has impaired or prevented his application for permits.
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Witnesses in the tribunal in Pretoria have linked two French presidents with Zuma and Mbeki around the arms scandal.
According to Ajay Sooklal, Jacques Chirac has requested Thabo Mbeki to persuade the National Prosecuting Authority to pay no attention to an investigation into the Thales arms manufacturer.
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The ANC national working committee (NWC) wants the Speaker of the National Assembly Baleka Mbete, to postpone Thursday’s state of the nation address (Sona) until President Jacob Zuma is kicked out of office.
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa was expected to meet Mbete and National Council of Provinces (NCOP) chairperson Thandi Modise on Tuesday to discuss the possibility of postponing Sona until President Zuma leaves office in line with the NWC’s resolution taken during its meeting on Monday night.
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The #ZumaMustGo group has threatend with a national shutdown a day after their march to ANC headcourters Lethuli House on Monday
Durban – The Metro Police are on high alert after a report of a national shutdown on Tuesday in an attempt to force President Jacob Zuma out of office.
The #ZumaMustGo group has threatened a national shutdown a day after their march to ANC headquarters Luthuli House on Monday.
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Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane has told the party’s KwaZulu-Natal provincial congress that it needs to go beyond “taking on the man from Nkandla” and turn itself into a stable government wherever it had taken power because of the easy target President Jacob Zuma had presented.
Maimane told the congress, held in Durban, that while the party had achieved what many would have thought impossible by taking the Cape Town, Nelson Mandela Bay, Tshwane and Johannesburg Metros, it had also made serious gains in KwaZulu-Natal in the 2016 local government elections. The DA now had branches all over the province and had increased its number of councillors from 150 councillors to 201, an increase of 11.88% of the vote in 2011 to 17.4% in 2016.
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President Jacob Zuma is adamant he will deliver his State of the Nation address (Sona) on Thursday, despite calls for him to step down.
The Mail & Guardian has reliably learned that Zuma told senior ANC leaders during a meeting at his official residence this week that he would reject any attempts to force him out as the country’s highest office before Sona.
“He [Zuma] has made it clear he would not accept any decision influenced by any ‘counter-revolutionaries’, including opposition parties. He said if it meant he should face impeachment and lose all his presidential benefits, he was prepared for that as a matter of principle,” said an ANC insider close to Zuma.
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The Economic Freedom Fighters’ request for a motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma has been scheduled for February 22, a day after the budget speech.
Parliament’s presiding officers on Thursday said they had rejected the EFF’s request to hold the motion before next week’s State of the Nation Address (SONA).
This year’s SONA will go ahead as planned next week, irrespective of who is president of the country, they said.
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President Jacob Zuma will have to make representations to public prosecutions head Shaun Abrahams today to argue why he should not face 783 counts of fraud, racketeering and money laundering.
In December 2017, Abrahams granted Zuma an extension to make representations after the president’s legal team made the request. Zuma’s lawyers asked that he be given until February 19 2018 to state his case, but Abrahams instead made the deadline January 31…
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Speaking to the News24 following a meeting at the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Zuma said they have adopted a resolution that will see African leaders tackle corruption in all forms.
“There is very big noise about corruption in Africa and indeed we have acknowledged that yes there is, although at times it is quite exaggerated. And we couldn’t just wait, the fact that we have reached a point where we say it’s a problem that we should collectively tackle together, I think it’s a step forward that says we are worried that if corruption is not tackled, the very scarce resources that we have are abused in one form or the other,” said Zuma.
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