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ANC top body confirms it’s discussing Jacob Zuma’s early exit as South Africa’s President

The top body of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress has confirmed that officials have been appointed to investigate Jacob Zuma’s early exit as South African President ,

However Secretary General Ace Magashule insists the ANC has not taken a decision that Zuma must step down as head of state, adding the there is no deadline for Zuma to do this.

ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule was briefing reporters after the weekend retreat – known as the lekgotla – of the party’s National Executive Committee.

He says discussions are taking place between ANC officials and President Jacob Zuma.

Sources within the national executive say  the committee’s decided that Zuma must be recalled.

The party’s top six officials, led by ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, should manage his dignified exit.

Calls from within the ANC for  Zuma’s departure have grown louder  since  Ramaphosa won the  party’s presidential race in December.

Zuma’s opponents maintain that the party needs to start on a clean slate ahead of the 2019 elections.

Umkhonto We Sizwe, the veterans league of the ANC, who have traditionally supported Zuma, say they would prefer him to stay until his constitutional term as President runs out after the elections next year.

However they will accept any decision by the NEC.

Zuma yesterday (Monday) indicated that he’s  staying in office when he , released a diary of his official engagements until mid-February that include giving the State Of The Nation Address to Parliament on February 8.

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Jean-Jacques Cornish is a journalist and broadcaster who has been involved in the media all his adult life.

Starting as a reporter on his hometown newspaper, he moved briefly to then Rhodesia before returning to South Africa to become a parliamentary correspondent with the South African Press Association. He was sent to London as Sapa’s London editor and also served as special correspondent to the United Nations. He joined the then Argus group in London as political correspondent.

Returning to South Africa after 12 years abroad, he was assistant editor on the Pretoria News for a decade before becoming editor of the Star and SA Times for five years.

Since 1999 he’s been an independent journalist writing and broadcasting – mainly about Africa – for Talk Radio 702 and 567 Cape
Talk, Radio France International, PressTV, Radio Live New Zealand, Business Day, Mail & Guardian, the BBC, Agence France Press,
Business in Africa, Leadership, India Today, the South African Institute for International Affairs and the Institute for Security Studies.

He has hosted current affairs talk shows on Talk Radio 702 and 567 Cape Talk. He appears as an African affairs pundit on SABC Africa and CNBC Africa.
He lectured in contemporary studies to journalism students at the Tshwane University of Technology and the University of Pretoria.

He speaks on African affairs to corporate and other audiences.
He has been officially invited as a journalist to more than 30 countries. He was the winner of the 2007 SADC award for radio journalism.

He’s been a member of the EISA team observing elections in Somaliland, Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Egypt and Tunsiai.

In October 2009 he headed a group of 39 African journalists to the 60th anniversary celebrations of the Peoples’ Republic of China.

In January 2010 he joined a rescue and paramedical team to earthquake struck Haiti.

He is immediate past president of the Alliance Francaise of Pretoria.

Jean-Jacques is a director of Giant Media. The company was given access to Nelson Mandela in his retirement years until 2009.
He is co-producer of the hour-long documentary Mandela at 90 that was broadcast on BBC in January 2009.

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