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 thank you couldn't. 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 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 whether it 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. over 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 wouldn't he yes i think so but it would also make him look weak and i think. trying to avoid death because it would also make the organization who make up the organization because it's at least what a lot of people i