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BusinessLive reports the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) took on President Jacob Zuma on Friday, calling him "insincere" for denying the existence of a tradition in the ANC that saw the party’s deputy president succeed its president.
After serving as ANC deputy president, Zuma was elected party president in 2007, succeeding Thabo Mbeki. Cosatu said "millions" of ANC and alliance members came out to support Zuma at the time using the same argument that it was customary for deputies to succeed presidents in the ANC. "We find it insincere that he never spoke out then and he never saw anything wrong with that argument at the time," the federation noted. Last year, Cosatu publicly endorsed deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa to lead the ANC, based on this being the party’s tradition. However, during a radio interview on Thursday, Zuma said there was no such tradition.
- Read this report by Genevieve Quintal in full at BusinessLive
- See too, Zuma should have spoken out against succession tradition in 2007, says Cosatu, at The Citizen
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