COSATU Congress Ranjeni Munusamy, The Daily Maverick, Johannesburg, 25 November 2015 On the issue of leadership positions, the running favourite to be the next ANC leader is Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa. While ANC succession is not formally on COSATU's congress agenda, the issue was raised during the debate on the political report. Teachers' union SADTU, which has been pushing COSATU to pronounce its favoured candidates for leadership positions in the ANC, was the first to raise the succession matter. Sadtu deputy general secretary Nkosana Dolopi said the principle of the ANC deputy president becoming the president should be upheld. Dolopi said COSATU had taken a similar position in the run up to the ANC's Polokwane conference in 2007 when it backed Zuma, then ANC deputy president, for president. Dolopi said agreement on this principle would prevent instability in the ANC and the alliance ahead of elective conferences. Dolopi's input received rousing applause but COSATU second deputy president Zingiswa Losi warned that this was not yet the federation's agreed position and the matter still had to be debated. Thereafter SADTU's proposal received support from nursing union DENOSA, the clothing and textiles workers' union SACTWU, transport union SATAWU and the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU). NEHAWU is now the biggest union in COSATU following the expulsion of metalworkers' union NUMSA. From: http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2015-11-25-cosatu-congress-fifty-shad es-of-irony-as-ramaphosas-flag-is-raised/#.VlaGxXYrK00 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
