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The Sunday Independent reports that it was Cosatu’s three powerful public sector unions that forced the labour federation to resolve at its central executive committee (CEC) meeting last Monday that President Jacob Zuma should step down.
Apparently, the National Education Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu), the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) and the SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) pushed their argument that Zuma must step down. The three unions were previously also at the centre of masterminding Cosatu’s decision to endorse Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa to succeed Zuma when the ANC holds its elective conference in December. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the SA Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) were among the industrial unions that opposed the move against Zuma. It seems that the public sector unions – which became power brokers after the expulsion of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) and the shrinking of the NUM – were angered by the ANC’s failure to meet Cosatu late last year. On Wednesday, Cosatu’s S’dumo Dlamini and Bheki Ntshalintshali met Zuma over the federation’s calls for him to step down and it was decided that the CEC would meet with the ANC’s top six after the Easter weekend.
- Read this report by George Matlala in full at SA Labour News
- The original of this report is on page 4 of The Sunday Independent of 9 April 2017
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