EWN reports that Cosatu president S’dumo Dlamini says President Jacob Zuma is welcome to address the union federation’s May Day rally in his capacity as president of the African National Congress (ANC).  

Earlier this month, Cosatu’s central executive committee said it no longer had faith in Zuma’s leadership capabilities as president of the country and called for him to step down.  Now two of Cosatu’s affiliates, the National Health Education & Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) and the Communication Workers Union (CWU), are against the decision to allow Zuma to speak at the rally, saying it will create conflicting messages.  Nehawu has asked Cosatu to ask the ANC to send another representative.  But Dlamini says the federation is only disputing Zuma’s leadership capability as the president of the country, not as leader of the party.  “Cosatu has invited speakers of the ANC and the ANC deploys the speakers it chooses to select. If Zuma comes, then we won’t have a problem,” Dlamini said.

• This report by Mia Lindeque is at EWN
• See too, Zuma not welcome at May Day celebrations, say Nehawu and CWU, at eNCA
• And also, Nehawu demands that Cosatu bars Zuma from speaking at May Day rally, at News24

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