TMG Digital reports that the ANC has rejected reports by television news channel ANN7 claiming that the ANC Deputy President, Secretary General and Treasurer General "pushed" President Jacob Zuma into attending Cosatu’s May Day Rally.  

Zuma was subjected to humiliation when he was booed and prevented from making a speech by Cosatu members at the event in Bloemfontein.  The celebrations ended in chaos.  The deployment of the ANC's top brass to the various Worker's Day rallies was a collective decision of the national officials, and not meant to sabotage President Jacob Zuma, party spokesperson Zizi Kodwa said on Wednesday.  He also claimed that leaders were deployed to rallies with the knowledge that there could be heckling and disruptions.  Kodwa went on to say:  “Such reportage is habitual and typical of ANN7 - devoid of truth‚ divisive and designed to create an illusion of some ‘ANC insider’ status for the channel.”

• Read this report in full at TimesLive
• See too, ANC slams ANN7 for report on May Day rally, at News24
• Read the ANC’s press statement in this regard at ANC online

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