Cosatu's Sdumo Dlamini urges delegates to back Ramaphosa's ANC presidency bid
Cosatu president Sdumo Dlamini has for the first time openly endorsed the union federation’ s support for Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa as the ANC’s next leader. He assured the federation and its affiliates that he would be at the forefront of Cosatu’s call for Ramaphosa to succeed Jacob Zuma as president of the ANC when the latter steps down in December. "The democratic centralism dictates that decisions taken by the constitutional structure‚ binds everyone including if there's a possibility of people who may have been holding different views. Once a decision has been taken by the structure‚ it is binding to all of sundry within the organisation‚ its binding to me‚" said Dlamini to huge applause. "When the workers have spoken‚ we all should understand that our responsibility is to implement that particular mandate. I am emphasising this point comrades so that from now on‚ when we stand and pronounce on a decision of the federation‚ now stop looking closer at the screen and say '...
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