South Africa has been pitched into an unprecedented political crisis after the ruling ANC party admitted that President Jacob Zuma had defied its orders to resign, and that it had little idea of when the 75-year-old head of state would respond to its demand to leave office (although, as of Tuesday night, Zuma said he would hold a press conference at 10 am local time on Wednesday.) The decision to tell the corruption-stained Zuma to stand down was taken at an emergency session of the highest decision-making body of the African National Congress near Pretoria, the administrative capital.
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