Mmusi Maimane

ON TUESDAY, the ANC in Parliament rejected the DA’S motion of no-confidence in President Jacob Zuma by 198 votes to 177.

Roughly, 40 ANC MPS voted to fire Zuma, but still the overwhelming majority supported the president again and kept him in office.

They did this despite the damage Zuma is doing to South Africa with every passing day that he remains in office.

It is clear the South African public has lost confidence in Zuma and are fast losing confidence in the party that sustains him in power. We had hoped the ANC would do the right thing and fire Zuma.

When a government clearly has lost the mandate on which