Zuma Maintains Grip as South African Rebellion Fizzles Out
- Richest province backtracks on call for president to quit
- Zuma allies take control of province with most ANC members
Jacob Zuma, South Africa's president.
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South African President Jacob Zuma seemed in danger of being ousted two months ago after the nation’s highest court ruled he failed to uphold the constitution. Now he appears as powerful as ever, tightening his grip on the ruling African National Congress as a campaign to topple him falters.
“After the court ruling, Zuma was standing on shaky ground,” Sakhile Hadebe, a politics lecturer at University of KwaZulu-Natal, said by phone from the eastern town of Pietermaritzburg. “The pressure has slowly vanished. He’s dodged the bullets.”