Jacob Zuma given 48 hours to resign by South Africa's ANC
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/12/reports-that-south-africa-president-jacob-zuma-has-resigned-dismissed-by-anc
South Africa’s ruling party has given President Jacob Zuma 48 hours to resign, local media has reported.
The decision to tell Zuma to stand down or face being stripped of his office was taken at a specially convened emergency meeting of the highest decision-making body of the African National Congress near Pretoria, the administrative capital, late on Monday evening.
A meeting of the ANC’s national executive committee (NEC) was called after it became clear over the weekend that nearly five days of talks between Zuma and the deputy president, Cyril Ramaphosa, who took over the leadership of the ANC in December, had failed.
After nearly 10 hours of heated debate, Ramaphosa and a key ally of Zuma left the meeting shortly before midnight to drive to the president’s official residence to deliver an ultimatum: stand down or face “recall”, a technical term for the process of ordering an ANC official to leave their post.
However, the 75-year-old retains significant support inside the party and at a local level in many parts of South Africa. Ralph Mathekga, a political analyst and author, said:
“Zuma is not just a person. He is a system. There are a whole lot of people whose politics fortunes are tied to his."