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IOL News reports that former Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said on Friday that the move to elect President Jacob Zuma into the top ANC position had been a terrible mistake.
He was addressing the more than 25,000 strong crowd at the Union Buildings in Pretoria that had gathered to demand that Zuma should step down. Vavi said: "We made a mistake in elevating a crook who was facing 783 charges. The first thing he did was to dissolve the Scorpions and some of us stupidly gave him a round of applause." In addition to criticising Zuma for removing former National Prosecuting Authority boss Mxolisi Nxasana and for making Hlaudi Motsoeneng the chief operating officer at the SABC, Vavi lambasted Zuma for the financial crisis at South African Airways and for allowing the Gupta family to get involved at power utility Eskom. Vavi called on the marchers to reclaim their country by pushing Zuma out of the presidential office.
- Read this report by Rapula Moatshe in full at IOL News
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