THE Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to address the nation on the latest court ruling regarding former President Jacob Zuma.
Steenhuisen said it was unthinkable that Ramaphosa can “go missing at a time like this”.
The DA wants him to speak out in defence of the Constitution and the independence of the judiciary which it says are increasingly under attack from elements within the African National Congress (ANC).
Steenhuisen said he’s written to the Speaker of the National Assembly to request that Parliament reconvene to urgently debate Zuma’s refusal to hand himself over to begin a 15-month prison sentence.
He said they are also concerned about the police’s defiance of an instruction to arrest the former President.
“President Ramaphosa needs to come out of hiding and draw his line in the sand. The time for appeasement and conciliation between warring ANC factions has come and gone. Hoping to remain silent until it all blows over cannot be the strategy of a president. Both he and all the members of the National Assembly need to start doing their jobs,” said Steenhiusen.
- Inside Politics
