The National Assembly will on Wednesday debate the motions of no-confidence in President CyrilRamaphosa and the Cabinet.
while the Democratic Alliance tabled the one against the Cabinet, excluding the President.
It is the first time that a motion of no-confidence is tabled against President Ramaphosa. His predecessor, Jacob Zuma, survived six such motions.The ATM, which has two members in the National Assembly, announced on Tuesday that it will not take part in the debate of its own motion. This is because the speaker declined to postpone it until their case challenging the open ballot voting is finalised.
Should the ATM’s motion be successful, the President and the entire Cabinet will have to resign with immediate effect. ATM spokesperson Sibusiso Mncwabe says, “We are not going to participate. Remember, the matter was not struck off the role. The court said that it is not urgent. It should go to the normal court role which our lawyers have already done. In all fairness, the matter is still sub judice as it is still before court and we advised the speaker about that. The matter is continuing in court. It will be improper to debate it and we asked her to postpone the debate. She wrote back to us refusing.