TMG Digital reports that Save South Africa convenor Sipho Pityana has come under attack by Cosatu for what the trade union federation called his “phony outrage” against President Jacob Zuma.  

In an address on Wednesday, Pityana called Zuma a limping president who was not trusted by his own party.  He said that Save SA had no confidence in the president’s ability to reflect reality in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Thursday and went on to claim that Zuma was “a leader not befitting the honour of presidency”.  Cosatu said it had noted the “slanderous” statements directed at Zuma with “amazement” and added that it found Pityana’s “sanctimonious hypocrisy unbearable”.  “The sad reality is that Mr Pityana is part of the establishment‚ and a spineless and subservient apologist for this country’s degenerate forces of capitalism‚” Cosatu asserted.

• Read this report in full at TimesLive
• Read Cosatu’s statement in this regard at Cosatu Today

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