Madiba’s Granddaughter Ndileka Mandela Supports Call for Zuma to Step Down

Ndileka Mandela, granddaughter of former South African President Nelson Mandela, says she supports nationwide calls for the current president – Jacob Zuma – to resign and step down.

“If the people are calling for that, yes, he should listen to the people and then step down,” she says in an interview with Al Jazeera English’s current affairs show UpFront, which will be aired tonight.

Ndileka tells UpFront host Mehdi Hasan that she believes the ANC must return to “the legacy of moral integrity and moral leaders”.

She said that “he leader must go back to the basic tenets of ANC. Of the Freedom Charter.”

During the interview, Mandela was asked how her grandfather, Nelson Mandela, might react to the current turmoil within the ANC. She said that while it was unfair to compare to the apartheid government, “I would refer back to what he [Nelson Mandela] said when he was alive, […] if the ANC does what the apartheid government did, you must do the same that you did to the apartheid government.”

This UpFront interview with Ndileka Mandela airs tonight, Friday, 28 April 2017 at 19:30 GMT / 21:30 CAT.

SAPeople will upload the full show after it has aired. It will also be available at www.aljazeera.com/upfront from 19:30GMT onwards and on YouTube. Follow UpFront on Twitter: @AJUpFront.