Voting against Zuma is voting against state capture – Hanekom

While African National Congress chief whip Jackson Mthembu believes the motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma later today is a ploy by opposition parties to dislodge the governing party from power, party MP Derek Hanekom has a different view.

Taking to Twitter hours after National Assembly speaker Baleka Mbete stunned the nation and announced that the voting would be done through a secret ballot, Hanekom said the notion that ANC MPs would be “voting with the opposition” by supporting the motion had to be dispelled.

Hanekom, who was fired from Cabinet earlier this year in March during a controversial reshuffle that inspired calls for the no confidence vote, said voting to remove Zuma from power was a vote for change and against state capture, massive looting and corruption.

In a statement on Monday, the ANC described the eighth no confidence vote in Zuma as “a frivolous motion, which has been hyped up by opposition parties as some sort of Damascus moment, will fail like many before it”.

The party said it was confident its MPs would toe the party line and vote against the motion.

MPs in the National Assembly will debate the motion later today at 2pm.

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