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sidumodlaminieNCA reports that Cosatu says that despite messages of support for President Jacob Zuma, the trade union federation still wants him to step down.  

There was confusion last week when during Zuma's birthday celebrations Cosatu president S’dumo Dlamini seemed to backtrack on the federation’s earlier call for Zuma to resign when he told Zuma to “remain strong during these trying times”.  Cosatu’s general secretary Bheki Ntshalitshali reacted in a phone interview that Dlamini was fully behind the call to have Zuma removed from office and that his attendance at Zuma's birthday had been in his capacity as an ANC member.  Ntshalitshali went on to say that Dlamini had not indicated in any way that he did not support the Central Executive Committee’s statement that Zuma should step down and that “there's no confusion” about the CEC decision.

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