UmANCshini ka Zuma: Rotting from Head Down: Time to Go..

08 February 2010

JOHANNESBURG (Sapa) - The Congress of the People will move for a motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma when Parliament resumes this week, deputy president Mbhazima Shilowa said on Monday.

"We derive no pleasure from dealing with this matter. Ours is not about the humiliation of the president of the Republic," he told a media briefing following a meeting of the party's top brass over the weekend.

The motion would be called because of the impact of Zuma's behaviour on the country.

Shilowa said the focus of the entire country was on Zuma due to his indiscretion when it should be on the issues ordinary South Africans face such as unemployment, poverty and HIV/Aids.

Cope general secretary Charlotte Lobe said South Africa had become a "laughing stock" internationally, because Zuma "failed to heed his own government's call on the pandemic".

She was referring to the HIV/Aids pandemic and said Zuma had not adhered to the government's programme on abstinence, being faithful and using condoms.

"His sexual advances to the children of his friends... goes to the heart of his moral bankruptcy.

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