Mbalula: We won't allow suicide bombers to remove Zuma
Police Minister, Fikile Mbalula, says they will not allow ANC MP's who are in support of the motion of no confidence-vote against President Jacob Zuma, to remove him.
This comes after ANC MP, Makhosi Khoza, said she will vote however she sees fit during the motion of no confidence.
Mbalula once again likened Khoza and those who agree with her to suicide bombers.
"I refer to those who will take a decision to defy ANC decisions, on the issue of the recall of the president as suicide bombers. They are taking a deliberate decision knowing very well what the consequences are" he says.
Khoza took to Facebook to defend herself stating that Zuma's leadership should be questioned.
"Minister of Police, Fikile Mbalula equated people like me to suicide bombers. He further threatened dismissal to those who seek a secret ballot or who would vote in favour of the vote of no confidence against the President we have been defending since he took office as the Deputy President. We are not defending ANC policies and noble mission, we are defending a leader who may arguably be described as someone with a chronically impaired moral reflective capacity" she says.
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Mbalula says Khoza is undermining the ANC and will find herself at loggerheads with the party.
"I have nothing against her personally, I have never mentioned her before and now I know she is one of the suicide bombers. She is one of those going to parliament to defy the ANC and get rid of the president whatever it takes. We will never allow that she must know. We are not running a shebeen, we are running a political party" says Mbalula.
In her Facebook statement, Khoza says she cannot ignore the public's call for Zuma to go.
"After seven failed attempts by the opposition parties to have him removed as President as we all ANC MPs subjected ourselves to ANC discipline by voting against the opposition, the public appeared to find justification for such a motion. On the 7 April 2017 the thousands of the members of the public took to the street calling for the same vote of no confidence that we had defeated using our numbers as the ANC. I could not ignore those who put us in power. The ANC received over 11 million votes yet we only have less than a 1 million members" she says.