South Africa: Former AU chair sworn in as an MP

21 Septembre 2017

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, September 21 (Infosplusgabon) - In a day of high political drama presidential hopeful Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was sworn in as an MP on Thursday amid speculation that her former husband Jacob Zuma is planning a fresh Cabinet reshuffle.

Dlamini-Zuma said she has no knowledge if she will be deployed to Cabinet, but she is viewed as a close ally of President Zuma. "Wherever and whatever the ANC deploys me to do to improve the lives of Africans, I shall undertake in their interest without fear or favour,” she tweeted.

Dlamini-Zuma who has served as the President of the African Union, was previously appointed to Cabinet in 1994 where she served as health minister.

Also on Thursday, outspoken ANC MP Makhosi Khoza announced her resignation from the ruling African National Congress (ANC).  "I want to say goodbye to the new alien and corrupt ANC. I quit," she said at a media briefing in Johannesburg.

Khoza came under fire and received death threats after speaking out against President Zuma. She was also hurled before a disciplinary hearing by the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal after voting against the president in a motion of no confidence. “Yes colonialism oppressed us. Yes apartheid oppressed us. But it’s more painful when your own people oppress you,” she added.

In another significant development, former President Kgalema Motlanthe said he agrees with analysts who say President Zuma has been a “disastrous” leader.

“Yes, of course, I would agree with that characterisation because conscience is what separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom. This is what gets human beings to know how to distinguish between right and wrong,” he said.

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