Parys – MPs in the ANC who voted against President Jacob Zuma must resign voluntarily, Free State party chairperson Ace Magashule said on Friday.
Magashule, who was speaking at the ANC’s cadres assembly in Parys, said it made sense for those MPs to willingly resign.
"It makes sense, when the party has given you a particular direction and you take another route, what do you expect? You want us to expel you. Why don’t you voluntarily resign?"
Zuma survived a motion of no confidence in his presidency, held via secret ballot in Parliament on Tuesday.
Following a two-hour debate 198 MPs voted against the Democratic Alliance's bid to remove Zuma, while 177 voted for Zuma to go.
About 30 ANC MPs voted for Zuma to be removed.