Ace Magashule said that no deadline had been set regarding President Zuma’s resignation GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/GETTY IMAGESThe African National Congress has threatened to throw President Zuma to the “vultures” in parliament and suffer the indignity of being kicked out if he does not resign. “When you resist you leave us no choice but to let you fry in the vote of no confidence because it means you do not respect the organisation,” Gwede Mantashe, the ANC chairman, said. His comments reflect the ANC’s exasperation at Mr Zuma’s refusal to heed its urgings for him to quit. The party’s national executive committee ended 12-hour talks with the president by formally asking him to step down. Despite ratcheting up the rhetoric against Mr Zuma, 75, the ANC was accused of failing to take a firm line: Cyril Ramaphosa, the president in waiting, had…

Source: The Times February 13, 2018 17:02 UTC