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TimesLive reports that Cosatu president S'dumo Dlamini has been given an ultimatum to either stand firm and take the union federation’s resolutions seriously or else an alternative leader will be elected to head the organisation.
This stern warning came from the National Union of Mineworkers’ (NUM’s) Peter Bailey‚ who was making the NUM's declaration in the closing session of Cosatu’s 6th central committee (CC) meeting on Thursday. "I want to say to the presidency (S'dumo Dlamini)‚ you seem to be found wanting in articulating the decision of the federation and if you are going to behave in that manner‚ you are not assisting in uniting the federation,” said Bailey‚ to a round of applause from the delegates. These remarks follow Dlamini's decision to not state the federation’s stance on who should succeed President Jacob Zuma in December during his opening address on Monday. This prompted Cosatu's first deputy president‚ Tyotyo James to take to the podium and unapologetically affirm the federation’s posture that Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa should take over the reins of the ANC and the country.
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