South Africa: Zuma Escapes A Motion Of No Confidence In ANC Executives

South African President Jacob Zuma at the launch of a social housing project in Pietermaritzburg, Kwazulu-Natal, on 1 April 2017. 

In South Africa, a delicate new weekend ended for President Jacob Zuma. The fate of the head of state was again discussed in the executive committee of the ANC, which gathers 107 leaders of the party. Once again, the president of South Africa escaped a motion of no confidence supported by several cadres of the ruling party.

South Africa: Another Difficult Weekend For President Jacob Zuma

In South Africa, since Friday, May 26, the executive committee of the party of Jacob Zuma, the ANC, meets in closed all weekend. An ordinary meeting, except that this is the first since the controversial ministerial reshuffle of the head of state last March. And since then, the anti-Zuma sling has intensified. And some senior officials of the party intend to ask him to leave his post.

South Africa: Zuma Calls For Resignation

The anti-Zuma sling strikes hard in South Africa with the call on Tuesday to the resignation of the head of state launched by the main trade union and historically of the ruling ANC, following a ministerial shuffle that dives The country in political and economic uncertainty.

"The time has come for him to resign. We no longer believe in his leadership abilities," Cosatu General Secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali said of President Jacob Zuma.