Geography Essay

Sub-Saharan Africa in the news
Jacob Zuma’s resignation
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Sub-Saharan Africa in the news
Jacob Zuma’s resignation
On Monday, February 12, the ruling South Africa party – the African National Congress (ANC) – demanded the resignation of the country’s president Jacob Zuma. To fulfill the requirement, the ANC gave Zuma 48 hours, threatening to begin the procedure of a vote of no confidence in the opposite case. The president of South Africa is elected by the parliament (National Assembly), in which the ANC has a majority. At the same time, Zuma is a promoter of the Congress itself. However, against the background of recent corruption scandals, the mood in the party has changed (Timeslive, 2018).
In 2014, after another ANC victory in the elections, Zuma became president for the second time, and soon the opposition demanded his resignation. During his second term, it did it five times. Zuma was accused of spending 16 million dollars on his residence, and refusing to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, although the warrant for his arrest was issued by the International Criminal Court. Finally, the opposition collected 783 episodes of corruption, extortion, and fraud in concluding state contracts for the purchase of weapons (Timeslive, 2018).
The resignation of Zuma did not change the political situation in South Africa. The ANC replaced Zuma with another person from the party. South Africa is the autocracy of the black majority. Since…