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South African minister calls on the ANC to discipline President Zuma
The housing minister of South Africa and presidential hopeful, Lindiwe Sisulu has called on the ruling African National Congress (ANC) to discipline President Jacob Zuma for bringing the party into disrepute.
According to Sisulu who is seen as an outside bet to become the next president, Zuma’s scandal had caused tensions and disquiet within the party going by a report presented at the ANC’s policy conference in July.
“If we all agreed at the policy conference that that is what happened to the president, why was he not taken through a disciplinary process?” Sisulu told Eyewitness News, a domestic news service.
Read also: South Africa’s Zuma faces vote of no confidence for umpteenth time
“I have been insisting that there must be a disciplinary process so that if there is an interpretation that you put the ANC into disrepute, that is an offence.”
Early this month, Zuma for the eighth time survived a vote of no confidence after the South African parliament conducted a secret ballot vote to decide his fate.
According to reports, after a two-hour debate and lengthy voting process, Zuma survived the secret ballot vote.
The breakdown revealed that 198 MPs voted against the Democratic Alliance’s bid to remove Zuma, while 177 voted for, with about 30 ANC MPs voting for Zuma to be removed.
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