Veteran Indian-origin South African freedom fighter and Nelson Mandela’s close aide Ahmed Kathrada has called on the country’s embattled President Jacob Zuma to “submit to the will of the people” and resign in the wake of serious corruption allegations.
Kathrada in an open letter joined increasing calls for Zuma to resign after the country's highest judicial body, the Constitutional Court, last week found him to have breached his duties in terms of the Constitution.
Kathrada was involved in the movement for democracy and was jailed for 26 years alongside Mandela and others till the end of Apartheid in South Africa in 1994.
“Today I appeal to our President to submit to the will of the people and resign. I believe that is what would help the country to find its way out of a path that it never imagined it would be on, but one that it must move out of soon,” Kathrada said.