and for more let's bring in melanie miller from the german institute for international and security affairs thank you so much for joining us tony thank you could even. we just heard there the a.n.c. secretary general saying let's leave it to zuma surely back cannot be a plan given zuma is defiance and his refusal to step down so what do you think happens now going forward could zuma still be in power three months from now six months from now well that does very difficult to say at the moment and i find it very difficult to speculate he has called for a press press briefing tomorrow morning so we'll see what is going on it doesn't seem that he's going to step down immediately because if he would do so have a plan to address the nation and not the media. you know. why not just hold a vote of no confidence in parliament why isn't the a.n.c. just doing that zuma would be pretty swiftly removed i wouldn't say yes i think so but it would also make him look weak and i think the. and see trying to avoid that because it would also make your organization here make it look the organization because it'