(Photo: Reuters)Johannesburg: The foundation set up to guard the legacy of the late Nelson Mandela on Tuesday blamed South Africa's President Jacob Zuma for the "wheels coming off" Africa's most industrialised nation and urged a change in political leadership. Since coming to power in 2009, Zuma has survived a string of corruption scandals almost unscathed. In a rare statement, the non-profit Nelson Mandela Foundation, whose board is made up of ten prominent South African academics, politicians and journalists, called on Zuma's African National Congress (ANC) to change its leadership. But Zuma weathered a motion of no-confidence in parliament over the scandal and has since paid back more than $500,000. The Mandela Foundation said the court ruling over Nkandla was an example of how Zuma had failed to uphold the constitution.

Source: Standard Digital November 01, 2016 12:22 UTC