South African President Jacob Zuma’s midnight reshuffle throws ruling ANC party into crisis

‘South Africa’s Jacob Zuma has taken the biggest political risk of his scandal-hit presidency, sacking the locally and internationally well-regarded finance minister Pravin Gordhan in a dramatic midnight Cabinet reshuffle.
By taking the unusual step of swinging the axe without consulting senior members of the African National Congress (ANC), President Zuma plunged the ruling party into what analysts have called its worst crisis since the 1994 end to apartheid rule.
Mr Gordhan was recalled from trade talks in London this week, on the pretence that he and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas were plotting with UK banks against the interests of the South African economy. Both were sacked, despite Mr Zuma’s own deputy Cyril Ramaphosa dismissing reports of the plot as “spurious”.’
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