HARARE - President Jacob Zuma should resign within 20 days, EFF leader Julius Malema said yesterday.
“Zuma should step down. If he fails to do so within 20 days, the EFF will march to the Union Buildings... and we will not leave the premises until he resigns,” Malema told supporters outside the Sunnyside Police Station in Pretoria yesterday afternoon.
He said he had laid charges of corruption, theft, fraud and racketeering against Zuma with the Sunnyside police.
This was prompted by the release on Wednesday of Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s final report on the upgrades to Zuma’s private Nkandla homestead in KwaZulu-Natal.
In her report, Madonsela found Zuma “unduly benefited from the enormous capital investment” in the Nkandla upgrades, totalling R246 million.
Malema said the charges were laid against Zuma, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa and architect Minenhle Makhanya, among others.
Madonsela found that Makhanya had made R16,5 million as Zuma’s architect and as the public works department’s principal agent for the Nkandla project.