A number of Jacob Zuma’s followers in KZN are reportedly planning a campaign to oust president\u00a0Cyril Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n
According to a report by the Sunday Times<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0the loyalists will continue voting for the ANC within the province,\u00a0but plan to give their national ballots to a party sympathetic to their cause should their plan to remove Ramaphosa fail.<\/p>\n The report states that the Zuma backers were considering working with Andile Mngxitama\u2019s Black First Land First ahead of the polls, while a close friend of Zuma’s, Caesar Nongqunga, has already formed a new political party with Zuma’s blessing – the African Transformation Congress.<\/p>\n ANC national working committee member and former KwaZulu-Natal chairman Senzo Mchunu said the party was aware of the plan, however other members maintained that the story was just ‘lies and rumours’.<\/p>\n You can read the full report in the Sunday times for 8 April 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n Legal battle<\/strong><\/p>\n Zuma made an appearance on corruption charges in the Durban High Court on Friday (6 April), in what is expected to be the first move in a long-drawn-out legal battle.<\/p>\n With the matter having been postponed to 8 June, talks have already moved to how Zuma plans to fund the battle as he will no longer have the endless resources of the state to fund a ‘Stalingrad<\/a><\/strong> strategy’.<\/p>\n As the corruption case is also expected to hold Zuma’s\u00a0personal financial records under close scrutiny, Zuma could potentially lose any assets that are considered<\/a> <\/strong>to be “proceeds of crime” – including his\u00a0Nkandla home.<\/p>\n Zuma\u2019s legal team is now expected to seek a review of national director of public prosecutions Shaun Abrahams\u2019s decision that there was no reason for him not to be tried.<\/p>\n
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