south africans are running out of patience with all of this and we heard it over the weekend when sorum of course are told the country that i am i know you want this matter to be resolved very quickly but there is also the sense that this is no longer about the country that this is self-preservation on the part of jacob zuma in refusing to leave office is not about carrying out the rest of his term to do good for the country but essentially to keep himself out of prison and that those who who continue to support him within the party structures ought to looking out for their own best so there is a sense of frustration on the part of south africans and they want to see this matter resolved quickly christine wonder thank you very much for those insights pleasure mr. and now to pyongyang in the winter olympics one of alpine skiing greatest ever. has finally landed his finest olympic gold medal the austrian did it in the men's combined today rising from twelfth position after the down fall downhill portion too fast off the slalom his show has won a record six world cup titles this is the fir

presence around opposed to a delayed resignation he said that he would if for instance introduce sorum of course that to the brics summit introduce him to the african union summit for example he said that they had agreed that they would share the presidential duties such a share in a show of unity so that people could see that the a.n.c. was a united party and that of course people abroad would get the understanding that the agency is a united organization we understand that several was on board according to what zuma says with that until it was taken to the party structures the national executive committee who essentially said we don't agree with that sold them back the message to president zuma to say unfortunately the party has disagreed with that so does that kind of indicate that there are divisions within the a.n.c. party with one faction saying ok you can take your time the other saying no right now straight away today and we know we have the power lies right now because when we heard from the a.n.c. chief we've been treasurer of this morning that the party was going to proceed

such a rush to get me out of office he said at some point he agreed with the state party president sorum opposed that if he's going to resign they should at least be a transition period where for example he would take along to the brics summit for example the african union summit and present him to the other leaders as the person who would be taking over he said that would have been in the interest of the party because people would have seen a united party to lead us working together he envisioned a period of at least three to six months where they could share duties between the two of them as a sort of hand of we know that that was rejected by the party and of course the party said that he has to leave today or he would be facing a motion of no confidence in parliament tomorrow talk to us a little bit more about what a rama posa presidency could look like first of all how likely is it that that will indeed come to fruition and second of all i mean he's inheriting a whole host of challenges and the nation is in a war of wills his presidency is pretty much a done deal at least we know tha

south africans are running out of patience with all of this and we heard it over the weekend when sorum of course have told the country that i am i know you want this matter to be resolved very quickly but there is also the sense that this is no longer about the country that this is self-preservation on the part of jacob zuma in refusing to leave office is not about carrying out the rest of his term to do good for the country but essentially to keep himself out of prison and that those who who continue to support him within the party structures ought to be looking out for their own best so there is a sense of frustration on the part of south africans and they want to see this matter resolved quickly christine wonder thank you very much for those insights pleasure mr. let me now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the world the trial of a palestinian teenager i had tommy lee is underway in an israeli military court in the west bank tamimi faces trial charges including assault and incitement for the slapping and pushing off to see israeli soldiers last year fin

or sorum of course a to give but they do understand obviously that when they are in power they can use and exercise certain make in ism's to shield him from prosecution it will only become clear when those things start happening whether or not he was in deep granted immunity but as far as they see line from sort of polls has been is that we are not interested and will not be giving president jacob zuma any form of immunity ok you've lived in south africa you've worked there as a journalist recently what the reactions are you hearing from the. resignation for the most part people have embraced this people have been waiting for this moment for very very long time and reached a prison jacob zuma eluded to that himself when he said what's new i mean if they if he's using the reason that people want to be out of office that's not new people have been saying zuma must go for a long time and so when it came to that moment yesterday the relief that a lot of people were breathing on social media for example you could see it in the tweets you could see it in the meantime so coming up on social m

feel after such a long period of the scandal ridden presidency and i think that people are expecting sorum a process to change things dramatically very quickly in that's going to be very difficult for him to do so one of his first tasks which i imagine he's already doing this evening is around working out how to reshuffle cabinet we know that one of the legacies that president zuma is left is a hugely bloated executive the bloated cabinet and many of whom are implicated in various corruption scandals and various issues of wasteful expenditure so one of the things that sauron pos is going to have to decide is who does he take forward to into the presidency for the coming year and also most critically who does he take forward as finance minister to give the budget speech which is taking place next wednesday and there are so many of the poor eating and somewhat tedious but very important administrative and organizational details that he's going to have to take care of and i think it is all of that the things to take place before people will see any real effect or changes so he a very long lis

reason for that so maintaining instant innocence of some sort and saying that the leadership under sorum of course has not gone on to abide by party structures that if he had done something wrong that they should have used party structures to discipline him but instead they've opted for the juggler and remove me from office and that's the argument that he is making now in holding on essentially he then goes on to say that he is not going to resign voluntarily and discoursing the party to take the matter to the bottom and essentially and the party of course very keen to wrap this up very quickly friday as you said could be went south africa has a new government essentially a new president addressing the country. after after after jacob zuma and it just goes on to show that the power struggle in this party has left president jacob zuma isolated on the margins he does not have the numbers in terms of the people supporting him ysaye that at some point he had agreed with sore i'm opposed to a delayed resignation but we understand that when the took that to the rest of the party they didn't li

jacob zuma insists on staying in office and not resigning immediately so to say it's looking bad on sorum of poso who right now is losing credibility because you have people wondering why is this person who spoke so brazenly about all that he's going to do and accomplish why is he seemingly so powerless and why i can't hear or see jacob zuma out of office and so in many ways jacob zuma refusing to go is also a disrespect towards sort of course undermining the mandate. he's been given by the a.n.c. to to now go over and take over from jacob zuma so while cyril has hinted at the fact one of the polls has him to the fact that he wants to have for jacob zuma the dignity that he thinks he deserves the more he does that the more the opposition for example is now running up the country to say look at this ineffective force of that you've got at the tool house surely the a.n.c. is an ineffective party that is run by single individual whose interests are not the interests of the country and what about the people of south africa are they getting impatient are they getting frustrated given of the co