Zuma in Fight for Presidency as ANC Warns of `Mafia State'
- ANC Secretary-General says `things are going to change'
- ANC unlikely to oust Zuma, political analyst Silke says
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Jacob Zuma faces a battle to save his presidency as ruling party leaders prepare for a showdown this weekend over a controversy engulfing the government that one top official said is threatening to turn South Africa into a “mafia state.”
The meeting of the African National Congress’s decision-making National Executive Committee comes after revelations that the Guptas, who are Zuma’s family friends and business partners of his son, offered ministerial posts to ruling party officials. On Wednesday, Deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas said he rejected a proposal made personally by the Gupta brothers that he take over the finance ministry position. Zuma said Thursday that he alone had the power to offer ministerial positions.