President Jacob Zuma sourced his own legal opinion, in addition to another one commissioned by the ANC, in his desperate bid to defend his key allies, the ANC’s KwaZulu-Natal provincial executive committee.
Zuma caught senior ANC leaders by surprise when he produced his own legal opinion during a national executive committee meeting on Friday.
Zuma told the meeting that the ANC should appeal a Pietermaritzburg High Court judgment that nullified the election of the KwaZulu-Natal PEC — to, he intimated, teach the rebels a lesson.
The PEC is key to in Zuma’s plan to anoint former AU Commission chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as his successor.