ANC Leaders Plan to Raise Zuma Removal at Key Meeting
- Ruling ANC’s national executive committee to meet May 26-28
- Panel decided against removing Zuma at meeting in November
Gigaba Says S. Africa Continues to Engage With Business
The top leadership of South Africa’s African National Congress will discuss removing President Jacob Zuma from his post at a meeting this weekend, according to two senior party officials who will be in attendance, with the country in the grips of its biggest political crisis in a decade.
The ANC’s national executive committee is due to discuss a motion of no confidence in Zuma that has been filed by opposition parties in parliament. Some members of the panel will also raise the possibility of removing Zuma as the nation’s president at the May 26-28 meeting, according to the party officials, who sit on the decision-making body and asked not to be identified because they aren’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter. The rand gained as much as 1.5 percent against the dollar on Tuesday.