The only response the ANC’s top leadership is expecting from President Jacob Zuma to a decision by its national executive committee that he has been recalled, is a resignation.
Zuma had given them an undertaking that he would respond on Wednesday to the decision to recall him from office.
Word of Zuma’s imminent resignation has halted work in the state and has left the executive in limbo.
Petronella Hlako has given up all hope of achieving top results in this year’s matric exams.
Since the end of last month, the leafy branches of the Mophurapudi tree, as it is known in Sepedi, have been her classroom.
She and 149 other pupils from Makangwane Secondary in the dusty hamlet of Non-Parella in Bochum, Limpopo, have been forced to study under trees because the crumbling walls of their school are in danger of collapsing.
As if the ANC has not already made a hash of governing South Africa, it is now unable to explain why it has decided to recall President Jacob Zuma from office.
It seems that after a 13-hour meeting of the ANC national executive committee at which the decision was taken, the party still cannot give South Africa an explanation as to why a democratically elected president is again being removed from office.
The ANC’s secretary general, Ace Magashule, in fact said that Zuma has done nothing wrong.
