The dismissal of Gordhan saw the Fitch and Standard & Poor's agencies cut South Africa's sovereign credit rating to junk status last week. The currency has tumbled about 11 percent since March 27, when Zuma ordered Gordhan to return home from overseas talks with investors, days before firing him.
The London protesters consist of South Africans who identified themselves with either African National Congress or Democratic Alliance, the two major political parties in South Africa, yet the two group are in agreement that President Zuma is too worn out to take the county forward.
During a joint briefing in Pretoria on Monday, the parties including the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Democratic Alliance (DA), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) and United Democratic Movement (UDM) announced they have been granted permission to march to the seat of government.
Al-Jazeera reports that about 2,000 people were also marching in coastal city of Durban.
On Friday, tens of thousands of South Africans protested against Zuma across the country.
Many took to Twitter asking Zuma to step aside using the hashtag #ZumaMustFall.
While Friday's marches remained largely peaceful, groups of protesters scuffled outside the Johannesburg family mansion of the wealthy Gupta family.
Strikes conducted on site of Syria chemical attack
Johnson condemned Russia's continued defense of Assad "even after the chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians". They have also apparently redirected a Black Sea Frigate armed with cruise missiles to the Syrian port of Tartus.
Zuma has easily survived previous such votes against him.
In Johannesburg, police fired rubber bullets to disperse about 100 ruling party members who were making their way toward protesters, the African News Agency reported.
"Safe to say some of the attacks that are out there, some of them are very painful, to see a newspaper headline with the President being portrayed. like [Adolf] Hitler and being drawn on that", said Zulu. Both Zuma and the Guptas have denied any wrongdoing.
Zuma's recent sacking of finance minister Pravin Gordhan unleashed a fresh bout of public frustration, as well as unprecedented criticism from senior ANC figures, including Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Zuma, 74, is due to step down as head of the ANC in December, and as president ahead of the 2019 general election.
The president was speaking at a wreath laying ceremony commemorating the 24th anniversary of the murder of Chris Hani, who he said was a proponent of a non-racial society - a dream which South Africa had not yet realised, as evidenced by last week's marches. "Mounting opposition to President Jacob Zuma has sparked speculation that he could be forced from office", Capital Economics Africa economist John Ashbourne said in a note.
Comments