Zuma will be president until 2019: Mokonyane
Water and sanitation minister Nomvula Mokonyane made an appearance at a late Tuesday rally hosted by the ANC Youth League, where she assured Jacob Zuma supporters that the president was not going anywhere.
Mokonyane said that, even though the president was currently engaged in a meeting with the party’s national working council, he would assuredly remain president of the party until the end of 2017, and president of the country until 2019.
The minister’s comments came after calls from various alliances and partners of the ANC, including veterans, Cosatu and the SACP, for president Zuma to resign in the wake of his recent cabinet reshuffle.
The reshuffle was directly to blame for South Africa’s credit rating being cut to junk status, which will have negative economic implications for the country.
Mokonyane appealed to the international community to respect South Africa’s governmental processes, and to give new finance minister Malusi Gigaba a chance. She said that neither Pravin Gordhan, nor Trevor Manuel, had a background in economics.
Speaking ahead of Zuma at the rally, youth league leaders dismissed Cosatu as incapable, the SACP as untrustworthy, and civil action groups and opposition parties as unable to move the masses.
They told crowd that Cosatu had failed workers, and that the SACP could not be trusted after threatening to resign from cabinet positions, but then changing their minds when they were safe, post-reshuffle.
They also threatened to march to the EFF’s head offices in Braamfontein and set it on fire the next time the opposition party disrupted Parliamentary proceedings. The call also went out to defend the ANC’s Luthuli house, and for Zuma to “move forward”.
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