City Press reports that labour federation has called for Mosebenzi Zwane to resign or be removed from his position, saying that it has no confidence in him as the minister of mineral resources.  

Following a three-day sitting of the federation’s central executive committee, the trade union giant indicated the following in a scathing statement:  “He (Zwane) is a weak and a polarising figure that has failed to deal with the biggest issues like retrenchments, illegal mining and the ongoing violence.  His collusion with other unions to isolate and attack the National Union of Mineworkers was the last straw for the central executive committee,”  The minister has close ties to the controversial Gupta family.

• Read this report by S’thembile Cele in full at City Press
• See too, Dank Zwane af, vra Cosatu, at Netwerk24 (limited access)

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