{"id":1819,"date":"2017-08-10T14:38:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T12:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.nupsaw.org.za\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2019-07-07T14:40:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T12:40:45","slug":"president-zuma-and-the-motion-of-no-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nupsaw.org.za\/index.php\/2017\/08\/10\/president-zuma-and-the-motion-of-no-confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"President Zuma and the motion of no-confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>PRESIDENT ZUMA AND THE MOTION OF NO-CONFIDENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>On 8 August 2017 opposition parties have been united in their calls for President Jacob Zuma to be voted unfit to hold the highest office in South Africa via a secret ballot<br \/>\nThe outcome of the vote was in favour of President Zuma, with the majority of the governing party rallying behind the President, choosing plundering and looting of resources, corruption and state capturing.<br \/>\nAs a non-political organisation, NUPSAWs concern is with the more than 20 years the President and his allies have presided over an economy based neoliberal free-market monopoly and capitalist principles, which has led to mass unemployment, poverty, and widespread inequality.<br \/>\nThe under-performance of the Rand that immediately follows the announcement of Zuma\u2019s survival is a clear indication of the markets wanting him to exit the Presidency. The local currency unit immediately weakened to R13.39 to the US dollar. Once again it is the workers and especially those on the lower salary scales, like community care givers who only receive meagre stipends from the government, pensioners and receivers from social grands who will bear the brunt.<br \/>\nNUPSAW could clearly foresee that Moodley\u2019s review of SAs foreign and local currency sovereign credit rating on Friday will be unchanged and will make it even more difficult to access funding in international bond markets.<br \/>\nThe vote of no-confidence in the President was called against the abuse of power by the leader of the ruling party and not against the ruling party per se. The Constitution is clear when it states that, \u2018If the National Assembly, by a vote supported by a majority of its members, passes a motion of no-confidence in the President, the President and the other members of Cabinet and any Deputy Ministers must resign\u2019.<br \/>\nAs can be expected from a corrupt government the MPs didn\u2019t publicise the fact that the 2014 electoral outcome could never be changed and that the ruling party would therefore remain in power, even if the motion of no-confidence prevailed.<br \/>\nTherefore, following delivering of Motion in Parliament by the Leader of the Opposition NUPSAW is disgusted that those speaking for the ruling party resorted to emotionally-charged, misleading tactics. Mainly, because none of those speakers could defend the President or came up with an argument why the President should stay in power. Instead, they defend the ruling party.<br \/>\nNUPSAW condemns in the strongest terms this very deceptive method of deliberately withholding information from the public. Obsessed in protecting a questionable character, the ruling party is now in a weaker position than ever before.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">For more information:<br \/>\n<\/span>Success Mataitsane,<br \/>\nNUPSAW General Secretary<br \/>\nCell 082 553 8465<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Issued by<\/span><br \/>\nThariza Steyn<br \/>\nMedia Officer<br \/>\nNUPSAW<br \/>\nTel. 012 342 1674<br \/>\nCell 082 455 2215<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESIDENT ZUMA AND THE MOTION OF NO-CONFIDENCE On 8 August 2017 opposition parties have been united in their calls for President Jacob Zuma to be voted unfit to hold the highest office in South Africa via a secret ballot The outcome of the vote was in favour of President Zuma,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nupsaw.org.za\/index.php\/2017\/08\/10\/president-zuma-and-the-motion-of-no-confidence\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-leon_sanders","post-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nupsaw.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nupsaw.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nupsaw.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nupsaw.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nupsaw.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nupsaw.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nupsaw.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nupsaw.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nupsaw.org.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}