‘Zuma must stay to protect the ANC’. Cosatu
Cosatu general secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali believes that, should the ANC get rid of Zuma before his term ends, the party would be left 'bleeding'. Uhm... sure.
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This is the second time this week that Cosatu has come to the defence of president Jacob Zuma; what with the trade union coalition’s president saying that it’s up to Zuma whether he wants ANC members to help him pay for Nkandla…
Now, it would seem, the crumbling Cosatu is willing to go even further and use what little influence it has left within the tripartite alliance to protect Zuma’s position.
Cosatu’s Bheki Ntshalintshali believes that Zuma should serve out his term in order to protect the party — he must not read the news very often — from a fallout similar to what happened when Zuma, with the help of then ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema, ousted Thabo Mbeki and became president.
“From the bleeding it had when it recalled Thabo Mbeki and now again to recall someone who’s left with a few months to retire from the ANC, I think they will allow the natural processes to go through than creating more divisions within the movement,” Ntshalintshali told Bloomberg.
“It’s too risky for them.”
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