Senior politician in South Africa's ANC urges party leaders to quit

ANC parliamentary boss whip Jackson Mthembu's remarks come a week after Appointee President Cyril Ramaphosa freely communicated bolster for Gordhan, saying the argument against him ought not be permitted to undermine his endeavors to restore the economy. Prosecutors have requested Gordhan to show up in court on Nov. 2, in what his supporters and experts say is an endeavor to gag the Treasury over its feedback of the undue political impact applied by a well off family near Zuma. "In my view, a priest is being sought after for political reasons, and after that accused of extortion. That is the reason I've then said, maybe we are not the authority that can take the ANC forward under these conditions," Mthembu said on ENCA TV. "President Jacob Zuma is the president of the ANC. When I said the whole ANC initiative that has officially assumed aggregate liability must accept any consequence, I implied everyone, myself included, including President Zuma," he said. S...