South Africa: Mr Jacob Zuma Must Safe the Nation the Pain of Lies and Deception By Announcing His Resignation On 9 February 2017

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MR JACOB ZUMA MUST SAVE THE NATION THE PAIN OF LIES AND DECEPTION BY ANNOUNCING HIS RESIGNATION ON 9 FEBRUARY 2017. The Congress of the People expects nothing new, creative or innovative from Mr. Jacob Zuma when he delivers his so called "State of the Nation Address" on Thursday, 09 February 2017. Like others before, it has the potential to be another damp squib. Since his ignoble inauguration in 2009, Mr Zuma has announced nothing inspiring or visionary as State President. Many of his promises have been vague in detail or simply disingenuous, to say the least. After 7 years at the helm, the economy has been disastrously declining and our national debt has now breached the unsustainable R2 trillion mark; unemployment has been stubbornly high or worsened and abject poverty is wreaking havoc among the vast majority of our people because of policy failures. Mr Zuma is a miserable ANC factory flop. He is incapable of rescuing the nation from the economic misery that he and his deeply divided party have created. Today, it is already clear that the targets of the National Development Plan are not attainable primarily because he has, wittingly or unwittingly,been sabotaging the hard work of a few of his trustworthy Ministers like Pravin Gordhan. It is common course among right thinking South Africans that he is serving his personal interests and those of his corrupt networks of cronies and cares zilch about the daily plight of the poor people. He has presided over, and led the charge, to degrade our national constitution and the rule of law under the protection of his party. In March 2016, the Constitutional Court found that he failed to uphold his oath of office, Similarly, the Concourt also found that Parliament has failed to execute its constitutional responsibilities. In a normally functioning democracy the President would have resigned, but not Mr Zuma. He has no shame or any moral fiber left in him. Parliament ought to have been dissolved and fresh elections called. But not with a ANC dominated parliament because their MP's have sunk to the lowest moral and ethical ebb since Zuma took office. They are mere Zuma's "bum-suckers" whose only interests are to save their fat cat salaries. During the 2016 SONA, COPE publicly stated its views about the status of Mr Zuma in parliament. We will repeat our principled protestation that Mr Zuma is not an Honorable President and has failed the values our constitution. The honorable thing for him to do, two (2) days before the 27th Anniversary of the release from prison of one of the founding fathers of our constitution, the beloved Nelson Mandela, is to announce his resignation. He has grossly failed the proud and moral legacy of Tata Madiba. COPE will continue to work with all constitution respecting political parties and the growing number of civil society organisations to restore the promise of reconciliation, hope for all and a better life for all South Africans. We have to join hands together to Save South Africa from acts of "counter revolution" which are sponsored by the erstwhile liberation movement led by Mr. Jacob Zuma.

Dennis Bloem COPE Spokesperson 082 4515 718

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