Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged the South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) to assist in returning the ANC back to its roots and help it to fight fraud and corruption in government. Ramaphosa received a raucous welcome from scores of Sadtu members and other alliance leaders at a Sadtu gala dinner in Greyville Hall on Saturday. Ramaphosa is widely expected to go head to head against Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma in the race to succeed President Jacob Zuma in the ANC elective conference in December. Ramaphosa has so far got the nod of support to succeed Zuma from Cosatu, the South African Communist Party and the South African National Civic Organisation while Zuma and his faction have come out in support of Dlamini-Zuma. It was Ramaphosa’s second visit to KwaZulu-Natal, considered the hotbed of Zuma’s support, in less than two weeks. Two weeks ago he led the ANC campaign in Nquthu ahead of the upcoming by-elections and he visited the Baptist Nazareth Church to receive bles...
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