Zuma affirmed as president of the ANC and SA

Following an ANC National Executive Committee meeting, the NEC has announced that it rejected the call for President Jacob Zuma to step down.

Mantashe on the motion to ask Zuma to step down:

On the call for the President to consider stepping down as President of the Republic, the NEC took time to elaborate on what we have previously identified as a negative narrative directed towards the President.  

The essence of engagement and discussion is persuasion in order to arrive at consensus. As such, the NEC of the ANC always seeks to persuade one another through argument.

It does not seek to conclude matters through voting.

Following robust, honest, candid and at times difficult discussions, the NEC did not support the call for the President to step down.

The NEC resolved it was more urgent to direct the energies of the ANC in its entirety to working towards the unity of the movement.