ANC can't want to negotiate while already having non-negotiables, says Jacob Zuma
The ANC said Ramaphosa is a no-go zone and it will not entertain parties who are putting his removal as a condition in order to work with the ANC, but Zuma said this is not how one approaches any negotiation.
Former President Jacob Zuma addresses members of the media under the banner of new party uMkhontho We Sizwe on 16 December 2023. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/Eyewitness News
NKANDLA - UMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party leader, Jacob Zuma, said that the African National Congress (ANC) could not ask to negotiate a power-sharing deal having already decided it had non-negotiables.
The former liberation movement believes Zuma's MK Party will want to work with it, if its president, Cyril Ramaphosa, is removed.
The ANC said that Ramaphosa was a no-go zone and it would not entertain parties who were putting his removal as a condition in order to work with the ANC.
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But speaking to Eyewitness News at his Nkandla home in KwaZulu-Natal, Zuma said that the ANC's approach was completely wrong.
While Zuma's daughter, Duduzile, has already told the media the MK Party will not work with the ANC of Ramaphosa, her father, the founder and leader of the organisation, is refusing to share details of the demands put to the ANC.
"Can't say you want to negotiate but not about our president. What is that? You don't want to negotiate, because if you want to negotiate, then you negotiate. If those issues arise in the process, then we discuss."
Zuma said that his party and several others were considering mounting a legal challenge against the election results.
But as he does that, he’s also thinking of ways to make his party's presence known when it comes to Parliament.
"If there is no quorum, that Parliament collapses. It collapses. They can't go there with members who are not there, that's not Parliament."
MPs, including those from Zuma's MK Party, are expected to be sworn into Parliament in the coming weeks.