News24 reports that labour federation Cosatu on Saturday said the governing African National Congress (ANC) needed to pause and reflect following the court rulings relating to Sassa and Hawks boss Berning Ntlemeza.
The Constitutional Court’s intervention to ensure that 17 million social grants recipients get their money at the end of the month and the judgment by the High Court in Pretoria that the appointment of General Berning Ntlemeza as head of the Hawks was invalid must both be addressed by the ANC, Cosatu spokesperson, Sizwe Pamla said. He went on to point out that it could not be accepted that “the people of South Africa have to look to the judiciary and the Public Protector’s office for leadership because our democratic government is limping from one crisis to another, and the Legislative arm of the state is sleeping at the wheel.” Pamla warned that the ANC and its government could not afford to continue committing such tactical mistakes.
- Read this report by Amanda Khoza in full at News24
- See too, Cosatu kap regering se oor ‘swak leierskap’, at Netwerk24
- Read Cosatu’s press statement in this regard at Politicsweb
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