South Africa’s president-in-waiting Cyril Ramaphosa admitted Sunday to “disunity and discord” in the ruling ANC party as the deadlocked effort to oust scandal-tainted President Jacob Zuma grinds on. With Zuma refusing a party request to resign, the African National Congress’s top decision-making committee will meet on Monday. Ramaphosa told an ANC rally in Cape Town that the meeting would “finalise” the matter, but he gave no further details. It was his first speech as free man, and a key moment in South Africa’s modern re-birth as apartheid white-minority rule crumbled. Zuma has not spoken since being asked to resign by senior ANC officials on February 4.

Source: Punch February 11, 2018 14:37 UTC