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TMG Digital/BusinessLive report that the ANC has accused those who prevented President Jacob Zuma from speaking at Cosatu’s main Workers’ Day rally on Monday of reducing the significance of the day by their "unacceptable behaviour".
"As a result‚ the important issues of workers’ rights‚ the advancement of the living wage and decent work were overshadowed by narrow factional interests‚" ANC spokesman Zizi Kodwa said on Tuesday. Speeches at the labour federation’s rally‚ held in Bloemfontein, were cancelled after workers heckled and booed Zuma and also Cosatu president Sdumo Dlamini. ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte and chairwoman Baleka Mbete were also heckled at rallies held in Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal respectively. But, ANC deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa was given a warm reception in Mpumalanga. Cosatu has officially endorsed Ramaphosa to take over as president of the ANC. In April‚ it called on Zuma to step down.
- Read this report by Genevieve Quintal in full at TimesLive
- Read the ANC’s press statement in this regard at ANC online
- See too, Zuma heckling an embarrassment, says Cosatu's Dlamini, at EWN
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