Zuma not part of us Pityana

SAVE South Africa leader and businessman Sipho Pityana warned in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, last night that if President Jacob Zuma is allowed to give his State of the Nation Address in February, the movement will give the nation the “true state of the nation”.

Pityana was speaking at a packed Nangoza Jebe Hall in New Brighton, where the Save SA campaign was holding the first of a series of meetings aimed at mobilising people for the call for Zuma to go.

“If Zuma is allowed to give his State of the Nation address in February 2017, we will be there to make sure the people’s true state of the nation is heard. We cannot listen to the litany of promises he makes,” Pityana said.

With every point he made, many in the 2000-strong audience shouted, “yes, yes, he must go now”. Among those present were Bay residents, businessmen, religious leaders and politicians. EFF and DA councillors, including mayor Athol Trollip, as well as ANC veterans also attended. ANC councillor Rory Riordan was the only member of the current crop of ANC councillors present.

Pityana said as numerous calls for Zuma to step down had failed up to now, the masses would give their own motion of no confidence next week by way of mass action.

“On November 23, we will launch a people’s motion of no confidence against Zuma,” he said to cheers from the audience. They [ANC] say we must wait, 2017 is not far. But Zuma must go now. We call on Zuma to step down. He’s not one of us. He is an unrecognisable species. He is a criminal awaiting trial. Other criminals await their trials in jail while Zuma is waiting comfortably at the Union Buildings. We cannot have a president who has no dignity,” Pityana said.