The Citizen reports that the Gauteng chapter of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has joined the increasing number of the federation’s structures to endorse ANC deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa to succeed Jacob Zuma as the party’s next president.  

Cosatu Gauteng provincial secretary Dumisani Dakile said the provincial executive committee agreed with the decision of the federation’s central executive committee (CEC), which identified Ramaphosa to take over from Zuma.  The Free State and Limpopo provincial executive committees have also endorsed Ramaphosa.  Ramaphosa is earmarked to contest the post against Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.  Cosatu’s CEC recently said it chose Ramaphosa because he was the only leader in the ANC with the potential to promote the agenda of the working class because of his background in the trade union movement.  Ramaphosa was general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers before he was elected as the ANC secretary-general in 1994.

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