Party to resign by the end of the day or face a no confidence vote in parliament who will fill the power vacuum now that zuma is leaving and can his successor clean up after nine years of persistent corruption allegations more on that in just a moment first lets listen in to what zuma had to say i have therefore come to the decision to resign as president or for the public with immediate effect. For more lets bring christine one who joins us from more departure so christine what comes now because i mean when we look at zuma he was really a larger than life politician theres certainly quite a big power vacuum to fill decision in fact he was dubbed by the media the to front president on many occasions you saw for instance the opposition table motions of no confidence in. Proceedings against the president all of which he survived at least seven of them now what happens is the procedure that needs to take place is he has to officially give the parliamentary speaker hes resignation that has