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Cosatu: Statement by Patrick Craven, Congress of South African Trade Unions spokesperson, condemning remarks made by ANCYL deputy president (24/10/2011)
The Congress of South African Trade Unions strongly condemns remarks reportedly made in Kimberley on Saturday 22 October 2011 by ANC Youth League Deputy President, Ronald Lamola.
He is reported to have said that “Next year we will replace Zuma with Motlanthe as president and we will also replace the secretary-general with Fikile Mbalula”, and that “it is in the ANC culture for the deputy president to take over from the president”.
He also attacked SACP General Secretary, Blade Nzimande, accusing him of turning “Chris Hani’s SACP into an Oxford Dictionary... a party that just does nothing but merely comes up with new words such as tenderpreneur”.
COSATU has reaffirmed that it supports the main demands which the Youth League is making in its Marches for Economic Freedom on 27 and 28 October 2011, but totally condemns any attempts to use the marches for personal attacks on ANC or alliance leaders or to open up a premature, divisive and dangerous succession debate within the ANC.
We demand that the ANCYL ensure that their demonstrations are peaceful and orderly and that they stick to the issues of economic freedom and youth empowerment and do not use the march for narrow factional battles.
COSATU also wishes to correct a claim by ANCYL Spokesperson, Floyd Shivambu, that “COSATU General Secretary would join the march”. The federation’s decision on whether or not to participate in the marches can only be taken following an engagement with the ANCYL leadership
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