Might Zuma stand aside?

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Stanley Uys
19 June 2008

The contours of a deal being mooted within the ANC

Top-ranking members of the ANC may, it is rumoured, try to persuade Jacob Zuma,66, to abandon his ambitions to become national president. In return he can continue as president of the ANC (the party) and be generously reimbursed (his financial affairs, notoriously chaotic, require management). In addition, the corruption charges against him will fall away. He would be given a presidential pardon (as provided for in the national constitution) or perhaps some kind of plea bargain agreement would be struck.

This is the broad outline of a plan to elect a president who would be more generally acceptable to all sections of the public and restore some of the ANC's lost integrity and status. Some may pause at the thought of the post-Polokwane ANC launching its career by interfering in the legal process, but supporters of the "sidetrack Zuma" project say they would be acting in the country's best interests.

It is being presented as the least bad alternative of the options on offer. One of these would be the introduction of legislation granting immunity to all heads of state, now and in the future. The proponents of this deal claim to speak on behalf of a growing number of "serious minded" ANC members who see the party being torn apart by factionalism, increasing violent infighting and "hooligan" behaviour.
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I heard rumbelings and whispers through my "sources" of this end of last year but didn't quite know what to make of it so I simply shrugged it of as BS.

Reading this on an actual news site(even though its an opinion piece) make me take notice again.

What do you guys think of this?
 
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Hopefully he will, it'd definitely be better for both SA and the ANC. As much as he should face justice if a pardon and buying him off is what it takes then its still a good option IMO. Matthews Phosa sounds like the better option of the two alternative candidates although I don't know much about either of them.

Its also important to have business leaders like Cyril Ramaphosa in government IMO.

Pitbull said:
Will the voters who supporting Zuma buy into this is the question ;)
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I think they'll support the ANC no matter who the leader is. You might have few that won't but the vast majority will, especially if Zuma supports the move.
 
It does not really matter. The ANC has already shown what type of leaders they want. The more corrupt the better.

They will replace Zuma with much the same.
 
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What difference does it really make if he is national president or just president of the ANC? Is the national president really anything more than a figurehead for ANC policy?
 
icyrus said:
What difference does it really make if he is national president or just president of the ANC? Is the national president really anything more than a figurehead for ANC policy?
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Exactly, and letting him off scot-free and rewarding him with a presidential pardon and lucrative financial opportunities sounds like more corruption to me! Fk it, if he is guilty then let him stand trial, either way he wont be president if he is found guilty.

No need to interfere with the legal process - let it run its course. If he really is innocent, then so be it and we will have a JZ president. If he isnt, then too bad, fk off to jail and Polokwane can have another popularity contest.
 
In return he can continue as president of the ANC (the party) and be generously reimbursed (his financial affairs, notoriously chaotic, require management). In addition, the corruption charges against him will fall away
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WTF?!?!? Do I understand correctly that if he decides not to be president corruption charges will be dropped?

Who is pulling all the strings that doesn't want Zuma in power? Let the law take it's due course, president or not.
 
sounds like another ploy to oust zuma

first this arms deal
then a rape charge
now trying to buy him

something tells me someone does not want this man in power, i think its because he will change this country

im just not sure if the change will be a good or bad one but i feel he will do this country proud

i have a feeling zuma is our savour and no our enemy

see hak i dont think zuma will do what the anc tell him and thats why they are trying their best it get him out
 
killadoob said:
sounds like another ploy to oust zuma

first this arms deal
then a rape charge
now trying to buy him

something tells me someone does not want this man in power, i think its because he will change this country

im just not sure if the change will be a good or bad one but i feel he will do this country proud

i have a feeling zuma is our savour and no our enemy

see hak i dont think zuma will do what the anc tell him and thats why they are trying their best it get him out
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What makes you think the first 2 were ploys? There certainly seems to be a lot of substance to at least the first one. People not wanting him isn't necessarily a good thing.
 
I will withhold judgment until such time as the candidate that is to replace him is announced.
 
i think for sure the rape charge was a ploy
i dont know about this arms deal but surely if they had concrete evidence he would have stood trial by now
 
killadoob said:
i think for sure the rape charge was a ploy
i dont know about this arms deal but surely if they had concrete evidence he would have stood trial by now
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The rape charge maybe, he was almost found guilty by proxy in the Shaik trial, not quite but close.
 
I think it's safe to say people don't want him as SA President because he will Suck Hard.
 
Kinda still want him to pay for his crimes like any other nobody on the street would have to do.
 
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