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Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has stripped himself of the last possible leadership role in the ANC after losing the race for the top position to President Jacob Zuma.
Zuma secured a second term as ANC leader yesterday alongside a new deputy, billionaire Cyril Ramaphosa.
Not only did Motlanthe lose the race for the presidency, but he also declared himself unavailable for the ANC national executive committee.
Rumours were doing the rounds that Motlanthe would soon depart as the country's deputy president.
Meanwhile one of the ANC's biggest critics has reacted to Zuma's re-election, saying now is not the time to purge the losers.
Cosatu's Zwelinzima Vavi says there must be no false pretenses that all is well within the ruling party.
