May, 29 2017.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.

Making headlines:
Zuma beats off efforts to oust him
ConCourt to hear EFF's bid to have Zuma impeached in September
And, Van Rooyen invokes sub judice rule over renewed 'state capture' claims

 

President Jacob Zuma has survived a second attempt to force him to step down at the ANC's national executive committee meeting last night.

It was apparently agreed, as a compromise between bitterly divided groups to refer the issue of Zuma’s continued leadership to a committee of 10 members. The move to remove Zuma from office was seemingly deferred on procedural grounds.

The motion against Zuma, who will face MPs on Wednesday for the presidency’s budget, was tabled by the ANC’s policy guru, Joel Netshitenzhe, on Saturday.

According to sources the move was supported by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi and his deputy Joe Phaahla, axed tourism minister Derek Hanekom and NEC member Sue van der Merwe.

 

The Constitutional Court will hear the EFF’s bid to have President Jacob Zuma impeached on September 5.

The EFF took Speaker Baleka Mbete to court to force Parliament to discipline President Jacob Zuma for failing to uphold the Constitution.

EFF leader Julius Malema said in February they wanted direct access to the Constitutional Court after the court found that Zuma failed to uphold the Constitution when he failed to implement the Public Protector's remedial action that he pay back the money spent on non-security upgrades at his Nkandla home.

 

Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Des Van Rooyen will not be commenting on Sunday's media reports that the Gupta's picked up the tab for his visit to Dubai in 2015 because the issue is sub judice, his office said.

'The Minister emphasised that the issue raised [in the] articles are part of the broader legal review of the so-called state capture report and as such he will not comment on the matters that are sub judice.''

Van Rooyen was the finance minister for a weekend when former finance minister Nhlanhla Nene was removed for a position in the Brazil Russia India China economic bloc. That position did not materialise and Van Rooyen was removed after an uproar and replaced by Pravin Gordhan.

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