South Africa’s ruling party has said it is considering whether to order President Jacob Zuma to step down as head of state. South Africa’s ruling party has said it is considering whether to order President Jacob Zuma to step down as head of state. Mr Zuma, whose scandal-plagued tenure has hurt the popularity of Africa’s oldest liberation party and the country’s economy, has come under increasing pressure to step down since being replaced as party leader in December by Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s deputy president. Mr Ramaphosa is widely expected to follow Zuma as head of state. The fact that the ANC committee even discussed Mr Zuma leaving is an admission that the president is a “liability”, said Mcebisi Ndletyana, a politics professor at the University of Johannesburg.

Source: Irish Independent January 22, 2018 16:41 UTC