... for a family wedding answered that very question. The President has presided over the creation of a nepotistic state within a state.
Presidential leadership requires both executive confidence and a respect for democratic institutions. But the President's management style of cronyism and patronage has led to the collapse of good governance across the administration.
That same lack of executive responsibility has also led to the failure to appoint a head of the Special Investigating Unit and a suitable National Director of Public Prosecutions.
On this occasion of the last Budget Vote of President Zuma's term of office, it is clear to all, friend and foe alike, that this Presidency is over. [Laughter.] [Applause.]
The many crises of this leadership and of the leadership on his watch and his failure effectively to manage his own government make it impossible for him to redeem his Presidency. [Interjections.]