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Zuma says he's not campaigning to be SA president
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Jacob Zuma, the ANC deputy president, says he is not campaigning to become South Africa's next president.
He was asked this question at a news conference in Johannesburg, held after corruption charges against him were struck off the roll this week.
Zuma says it depends on whether the ANC asks him to stand for its leadership. |
President Thabo Mbeki fired Zuma in June last year after the Durban High Court had found that he and Schabir Shaik his former financial advisor had a corrupt relationship.
The Pietermaritzburg High Court has however struck Zuma's corruption case off the roll. meanwhile, a political analyst says Mbeki may have to appoint two deputy presidents as a workable solution to please the masses who have called for the re-instatement of Zuma to his former position.
Professor Sipho Seepe was reacting to a resolution adopted at Cosatu's national congress in Midrand, which calls for the immediate reinstatement of Zuma. Seepe says former President Nelson Mandela had Mbeki and FW de Klerk as his two deputies during the government of national unity.
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