News24 reports that Cosatu general secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali said on Tuesday that President Jacob Zuma was not indispensable.  

Speaking at a briefing on the trade union federation's central executive committee (CEC) meeting held on Monday, he stated:  "The ANC is capable to fill that position.  There are a number of ANC comrades within the ANC."  The CEC resolved that Zuma should step down.  Cosatu was reacting to Zuma's cabinet reshuffle, which he announced on Thursday night.  Ntshalintshali claimed that Zuma did not have the leadership ability to unite the ANC, as evidenced by the Gupta family's influence over him and the Constitutional Court ruling on his Nkandla homestead.  "We don't take kindly to not being consulted on this matter," said Cosatu president S’dumo Dlamini, who added that the federation needed “serious responses."

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