PRESIDENT ZUMA UNDER FIRE AGAIN


The South African President, Jacob Zuma has yet again survived another vote of no confidence passed on him by members of the opposition party.

This is the third time this year, 2016 that President Jacob Zuma has survived a vote of no confidence from the opposition parties that are calling for his resignation.

The Democratic Alliance Opposition Party leader Mmusi Maimane moved the motion asking the house to forcibly remove President Zuma from office in the overall interest of the good people of South Africa.

However, this motion had to die yet again and for the third term because of the overwhelming majority which the African National Congress (ANC) party still has at the house.

For what it is, the ANC is still the party of the liberation on whose platform the great Madiba, Nelson Mandela coasted South Africa to the halls of liberty and freedom

 President Jacob Zuma is widely accused of corruption, violating the constitution and refurbishing his private rural house in Nkandla KwaZulu-Natal province with tax payers' money.

Earlier this year, South Africa's highest court found the president guilty of the some of the above charges and ordered him to pay back to tax payers' what he took from them

In September of this year, President Zuma refunded the tax payers the sum of  $500,000.

Over the years, it seems the leadership of ANC has been embroiled in politics of selfish interest that people are gradually getting the feeling the party is veering off its course.

A lot of people who want the ANC to be what it should be, the party of liberation, now have course to be disenchanted with it as its leadership seems to have been hijacked by people who care less about South Africans but more about themselves.

In September 20, 2008, President Thabo Mbeki was recalled by the then leader of the party, Jacob Zuma after the country's apex court ruled that the presidency had a hand in the corruption allegation against the party leader, Jacob Zuma.

Mr. Mbeki resigned in the aftermath of this thus successfully paving the way for Mr. Jacob Zuma to win the election in the year 2009.

While the call for President Jacob Zuma's resignation gathers momentum everyday, South Africans may have to watch a while and wait to see if the ANC-controlled house can heed the advise of Mmusi Maimane by either putting them first or putting Jacob Zuma first.

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