Announcement in a televised address to the people of south africa on wednesday night the move coming after an order by his a. N. C. 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 has 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 the city in fact he was dubbed by the media the to front president on many occasions useful 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