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  South African President Jacob Zuma has reported that the ANC's National Executive Committee (NEC) had resolved on Friday to ask President Jacob Zuma  to resign and that, if he refused, he would be forced to step down by the party's six-strong leadership group. The station reported the comments on Saturday but did not name its sources. An anonymous NEC member quoted by online news site News24 said that decision had been reached unanimously. South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), declined to comment on a report about plans to force Zuma to quit as president, as its leaders gather to outline the party's program for the coming year. Zuma's second presidential term is due to run until 2019. The newly elected NEC made no mention of his possible early exit in a statement it issued after meeting for the first time on Thursday and Friday under the party's new leader,  Cyril Ramaphosa. Asked about the reports that Zuma would ...

Thete's a very important piece of history I'll like to share with you which concerns you. On December 1, 1955, a middle-aged "negro woman" in America, Mrs. Rosa Parks, refused to stand up for a young white man who just entered the segregated bus she was ridding in. If she did, she would have had to stand all through the journey. At that time, the bus is segregated in most parts of America: white people sit in front rows and black people sit from the back. Blacks would normally pay fare to the driver in the front, then step out of the bus and go through the back door to find a place in an already tight area at the back.  If the allocated spaces for blacks are filled, all other blacks joining the bus would have to stand even when the more than half of the bus spaces reserved for whites are empty! Such was the injustice and humiliation that black Americans faced then. For refusing to stand up for the young white man, Mrs Rosa Parks was immediately arrested...