Zuma must step down as SA president, but remain party leader, say some Gauteng ANC leaders
13 April 2016
Johannesburg – Jacob Zuma should step down as president of the country, but stay on as ruling party leader, some Gauteng ANC provincial executive committee members have proposed.
"Members of the provincial executive committee made several proposals, for example [that] the president says 'Because of these concerns I should step aside as the president of the republic and just remain the president of the ANC'," Gauteng ANC secretary Hope Papo told News24 Live.
The suggestion was made during a meeting on Monday.
The PEC released a statement on Tuesday, saying that Zuma should "do the right thing". The statement, however, stopped short of saying that it wanted Zuma to step down.