{"id":119191,"date":"2016-04-05T19:21:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T17:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=119191"},"modified":"2016-04-07T09:24:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T07:24:21","slug":"trevor-manuel-calls-on-zuma-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/119191\/trevor-manuel-calls-on-zuma-to-step-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Trevor Manuel calls on Zuma to step down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former finance minister Trevor Manuel has called on President Jacob Zuma to step down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The violation of the key oath of office of the head of state, which I think is a deep crisis. I think it\u2019s in all of our interests that the president actually steps aside,&#8221; he said in an interview with Soweto TV.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition parties failed to have Zuma impeached on Tuesday, following a Constitutional Court ruling that he had failed to uphold his constitutional obligations as president.<\/p>\n<p>The National Assembly\u00a0 debated a motion tabled by the Democratic Alliance to have the president removed from office.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0short clip of Manuel calling for Zuma to step down was uploaded onto Youtube by TimesLive.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gumssvF4nFQ\" width=\"640\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/trevor-manuel-calls-on-zuma-to-step-down-20160405\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>More on the president<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to End of the road for Zuma: experts\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/118757\/end-of-the-road-for-zuma-experts\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">End of the road for Zuma: experts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Why Zuma\u2019s face is not on ANC election posters\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/118524\/why-zumas-face-is-not-on-anc-election-posters\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why Zuma\u2019s face is not on ANC election posters<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Gordhan setting up a team to calculate Zuma\u2019s Nkandla bill\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/118694\/gordhan-setting-up-a-team-to-calculate-zumas-nkandla-bill\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Gordhan setting up a team to calculate Zuma\u2019s Nkandla bill<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Zuma violated the constitution: ConCourt\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/118474\/zuma-violated-the-constitution-concourt\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Zuma violated the constitution: ConCourt<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former finance minister Trevor Manuel has called on President Jacob Zuma to step down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":51464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[26,2831],"class_list":["post-119191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-headline","tag-trevor-manuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119337,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119191\/revisions\/119337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}