Cosatu wants ANC to change its constitution to limit Zuma’s power
After several Cabinet reshuffles, without consultation, Cosatu wants the ANC’s allies to consist of ‘equal partners’
Union federation Cosatu is looking to alter the balance of power in its alliance with the ANC and wants the party to change its constitution to limit the president’s power to reshuffle its Cabinet. "The ANC constitution must be amended to tell the president of the ANC what he can do," Bheki Ntshalintshali, Cosatu’s general secretary said in an interview at Bloomberg’s Johannesburg office on Tuesday. "The ANC constitution should say even that if the law allows it, its president in government will not make decisions alone." Cosatu and the South African Communist Party (SACP) have accused President Jacob Zuma of alienating the ANC’s allies by spurning consultation and making Cabinet changes that knocked the rand and bonds and prompted credit rating downgrades. A split in the alliance could harm the ANC’s chances in elections in 2019.
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