Earlier this week, the President recalled Gordhan from planned events in the UK
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The President already defeated impeachment proceedings in April 2016 over the scandal, in which he was found to have illegally used taxpayers’ money to upgrade his country home in the village of Nkandla
According to the two sources, the offer is under a deal with opponents in his ruling party that would see Finance Minister, Pravin Gordhan, leave office now
Kathrada had in 2016 criticised Zuma over a corruption scandal
After two decades of political dominance, the historic ANC liberation movement, once led by Nelson Mandela, was also at risk of losing its majority in the capital Pretoria and the economic metropole Johannesburg, where the results were still too close to call
The main opposition Democratic Alliance made strong gains in Wednesday’s voting, raising its share of the vote to about 22 per cent from 16.7 per cent
Pansy Tlakula, the Head of the country’s Independent Electoral Commission, said in Pretoria on Thursday that the ANC had 55.8 per cent of the vote after results from nearly 20 per cent of polling stations had been counted
Mr. Mandela has suffered from chronic lung problems since contracting tuberculosis during his 27-year imprisonment for fighting against apartheid
Abubakar also praised Zuma’s victory speech, saying: “His victory speech, given as always, with an accompanying edifying song made it clear that he will do his best to redeem the bad and address the main concerns of those forces of change – the corruption, the intolerable levels of thuggery – giving all ANC faithful renewed hope