On South Africa's Mandela Day, ANC MP denounces 'disgraceful' Zuma


FILE PHOTO: South Africa's President Jacob Zuma looks on as he officially opens the African National Congress 5th National Policy Conference at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Soweto, South Africa, June 30, 2017. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - An ANC backbencher branded South African President Jacob Zuma a disgrace on Tuesday, adding one of his own MPs to the long list of detractors of all colours and political stripes who want an end to his eight scandal-plagued years in office.

In a breach of party discipline that reveals the depth of anger within the African National Congress (ANC), Makhosi Khoza, a strident 47-year-old Zulu academic, chose Nelson Mandela's birthday to denounce Zuma as an insult to the memory of democratic South Africa's founding father.

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