South Africa’s Congress of the People has weighed in on Jacob Zuma’s recent revelations about his out-of-wedlock child. The upstart party, facing its own internal turmoil, plans to call for a motion of no confidence in Zuma when Parliament resumes this week. The gesture is almost certain to amount to symbolic grandstanding, though if all of the opposition party members and any among the ANC sign on, Zuma’s short-term political fortunes will be damaged. In the long run it is difficult to envision this being enough to topple Zuma’s Presidency, though crazier things have happened in South African political history.
