Pretoria — South Africa's opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, has approached the Pretoria North High Court in a bid to force President Jacob Zuma to explain last month's Cabinet reshuffle. The party has filed an urgent application to compel President Zuma to disclose his reasons for the sweeping changes. President Zuma and Mr Gordhan are known to be foes and following the reshuffle, South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) said it had accepted that the relationship between the two was irreconcilable. DA said the South African leader's decision to dismiss ministers or their deputies must pass the standards of rationality. He said President Zuma had been disingenuous in maintaining that he was not obliged to disclose his thinking as he had been exercising his executive power.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 26, 2017 09:00 UTC