The SABC is reporting that the former minister went to great lengths to ensure Zuma was ousted.
In 2017, Zuma narrowly survived a final vote of no confidence against him in parliament, which was the first ever to be held by secret ballot. Some ANC members, such as Hanekom, made no secret of the fact that they wanted to vote Zuma out.
At least 18 of the ruling party’s members voted with the opposition, who had taken pains to portray their motion as an attempt to dislodge a weak and unpopular president, not an assault on the ruling ANC. The opposition calculated that there were possibly as many as 40 or more ANC MPs who supported the motion as Zuma survived his eighth no-confidence motion in eight years after weeks of protest and even Constitutional Court action in an effort to depose him.
He claimed prior to the vote that he had 60 ANC MPs’ support against Zuma, which turned out to be an overestimation.
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