Cosatu to meet ANC over Zuma

COSATU – led by its president, S’dumo Dlamini – will engage the ANC following its heated meeting which debated calls for President Jacob Zuma to step down.

During an interview with The Sunday Independent yesterday, Dlamini said the federation stood by its pronouncement that Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa should succeed Zuma as president of the party and country.

“The central executive committee (CEC) will indeed meet the ANC to discuss its position, which led to it not recalling President Zuma after the national executive committee meeting. I cannot confirm the date, but the CEC will decide on it,” Dlamini said.

Asked what prompted Cosatu to defy the ANC which has consistently warned its structures and allies to desist from pronouncing on the party’s succession debate, Dlamini said: “This debate has been going on for some time. Therefore we decided to pronounce that Ramaphosa must be the next president of the ANC and the country.

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“Some comrades have consistently been engaged in issues of succession by pronouncing their preferred candidate to succeed Zuma.”

The Cosatu president also hit out at his opponents, who have previously labelled him a Zuma puppet.

“I’m not Zuma’s puppet. I respect him as my president... therefore the allegations cease to exist.

“The comrades who say they want to isolate the Cosatu president are doing so because they want to push a certain agenda.

“They are trying to blackmail me to push their own interests.

“Cosatu takes collective decisions. Therefore anybody who attempts to subject us to factionalism will not succeed,” said Dlamini.

“It is indeed true that the ANC is faced with challenges. We therefore support a call for unity because we are part of the (tripartite) alliance.” LONDON: A British secretary tasked with ordering Christmas decorations for the office got slightly more than she bargained for when she ordered two reindeer – eh… decorations?

The Daily Mirror reported that it all went fantastically wrong.

A colleague of the secretary said on Twitter that the woman didn’t realise she wasn’t ordering toys.

The message read: “Best thing at work happened today. Our receptionist ordered 2 reindeer for xmas dectoration (sic) for the office.

“She only went and ordered 2 real ones accidentally!

“We have them in our bike shed outside.”

Felicity, who tweeted the hilarious gaffe, then provided an update, saying: “The reindeer (delivery) people picked Dancer and Prancer up last night.”