The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) will hold a critical leadership meeting next week to decide its course of action should its preferred candidate, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, fail to emerge on top at the ANC’s national elective conference in December. Cosatu is so far the strongest constituency to throw its weight behind Ramaphosa in the ANC race to succeed President Jacob Zuma as party president in December. Ramaphosa is up against Zuma and the ANC Women’s League preference, NEC member Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, for the post. The federation is holding a key central executive committee meeting from Monday next week. It is the first meeting since the ANC’s national policy conference at the end of June, the South African Communist Party’s national conference last month, and the release of weaker employment figures by Statistics SA. Insiders told the Business Day on Monday that the meeting was likely to emerge with a strategy — which took into consideration the SAC...
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