ANC Women’s League takes aim at ‘greedy’ Cosatu leaders over Dlamini slur
The federation called for league president Bathabile Dlamini to be fired as social development minister, saying the social grants fiasco ‘smells of corruption’
The ANC Women’s League has accused Cosatu leaders of targeting its president, Bathabile Dlamini, because of the "uncontrollable ambition" of federation bosses. The ANCWL was responding to Cosatu’s central executive committee on Thursday after it called on President Jacob Zuma to fire Dlamini over her handling of the social grants crisis affecting about 17-million recipients. The federation said the social grants saga "smells of corruption". "It is the ANCWL’s view that the grandstanding posture of claiming it ‘smells of corruption’ is mainly driven by some in Cosatu leadership that have uncontrollable ambition to be deployed into ANC-led government positions, which includes cabinet positions in Parliament," the Women’s League said in a statement. "They create unfounded allegations to assissinate characters of some ANC leaders who are serving in the ANC -ed government with the hope that those leaders will be recalled and that will be opportunity for them to be deployed." The league s...
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