ANA reports that S’dumo Dlamini, president of Cosatu, on Thursday reiterated the ANC-aligned labour federation’s stance that President Jacob Zuma should resign and be replaced by his deputy Cyril Ramaphosa.  

To loud cheers at the National Union of Mineworkers’ (NUM) central committee meeting in Pretoria, Dlamini said “the time has arrived for him to step down and allow the country to be led or taken forward by a new collective at government level, and we no longer believe in his leadership abilities.  This is what Cosatu is saying.”  He told ANC secretary general, Gwede Mantashe, who was among the delegates, that “we understand your frustration but we have been there before”.  Dlamini said he would be part of the mass mobilisation for Ramaphosa to rise to the helm of the ANC ahead of the elective conference set for December.  The two-day NUM conference continues on Friday.

• Read this report in full at The Citizen
• Read too, NUM endorses Ramaphosa as next ANC president, at SowetanLive
• And also, Prepare for resistance from the 'securocrats', Mantashe tells NUM, at M&G

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