The Citizen reports that the ANC in Parliament on Tuesday tried its best to assure the public that President Jacob Zuma having been heckled, shunned and booed away from addressing Cosatu’s workers’ rally in Bloemfontein on Monday was “healthy”.
During a workers’ debate in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), Landulile Catherine Dlamini said the ANC had expected Zuma might not get the happiest of receptions. “We were expecting that, as the ANC. There will be tensions and those tensions are healthy tensions,” Dlamini said of the alliance partnership between the ANC and labour federation Cosatu. Under the ANC government, Dlamini argued, headway was being made in employment. Another ANC MP, Boingotlo Nthebe, charged it was not Zuma’s job alone to create jobs. He said to heckling from opposition benches that Zuma, as the head of government, drove policy to create an environment for the private sector to implement it.
- Read this report by Denise Williams in full at The Citizen
- Read too, Not Zuma's responsibility to create jobs, ANC MP says, at News24
- And also, Nxesi plays down Zuma heckling at Cosatu rally, at EWN
- As well as, Boos against president should be celebrated, says deputy labour minister, at News24
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