DA says Zuma should step down from Presidency

By Cindy Witten
04 July 2008

“No Zuma, no country”. That is the unnerving warning made by the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans' Association. The threat came just a day before ANC president Jacob Zuma was expected to appear in the Pietermaritzburg High Court. The MKMVA made it clear that a legal defeat for Zuma "would not be tolerated".

The organisation's deputy national secretary, Ramatuku Maphutha, told Independent Newspapers they would make sure that Zuma becomes the next president of the country, no matter what it takes.

The democratic alliance say they believe the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans’ Association’s threat of revolutionary violence, should Jacob Zuma be found guilty of corruption, makes his candidacy as President of South Africa untenable.

DA media liaison Lindiwe Mazibuko says Zuma must now put the public interest first and announce his withdrawal from the presidential race until his corruption trial is resolved.
“The discourse which surrounds Jacob Zuma’s trial, has now shifted very quickly and which was perpetuated by Vavi and Malema, and others to what is now an all out declaration of war,” said Mazibuko.
“He (Zuma) is not fit to lead South Africa.”