Negotiations Continue Over Zuma: Will He Go Now or Now-Now?

Negotiations Continue Over Zuma: Will He Go Now or Now-Now?
The party steadfastly supported Mr. Zuma during his nearly nine years in office, they said, adding
that the recent move to unseat Mr. Zuma was the result of a party split — and not a genuine attempt to transform itself.
Instead, it’ll be sometime in the near future, or, to use a quintessential South African expression, "now-now." Negotiations between Mr. Zuma
and his deputy and probable successor as president, Cyril Ramaphosa, over South Africa’s presidency entered their second week on Monday after days of premature reports that Mr. Zuma’s exit was imminent.
At a party conference in December, Mr. Ramaphosa, who has been the nation’s
deputy president since 2014, succeeded Mr. Zuma as the leader of the A.N.C.
that They want Zuma to go because it’s their time — for Cyril’s group — to eat,
At a news conference Monday morning, Mmusi Maimane, the leader of the main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, said
that Mr. Zuma should be afforded no special treatment, including security after his presidency.
On Sunday, Mr. Ramaphosa spoke of the need to carry out talks with Mr. Zuma with "care
and purpose." "The key objective is uniting our people," he said.
Mr. Ramaphosa said last week that he was engaged in direct talks with Mr. Zuma over a transition,
but he has given no details about what they discussed.
It’s factions swapping seats." With an eye toward uniting the party, Mr. Ramaphosa had pressed Mr. Zuma to resign voluntarily, his supporters said.