'Long overdue step': Cosatu welcomes ANC's suspension of 'bored pensioner' Zuma

The trade union federation that played a key role in Jacob Zuma's election as leader of the ANC in 2007, Cosatu, has welcomed the ANC suspending the corruption-accused former president from its ranks and advised its alliance partner not to "worry about the confused meanderings of a bored pensioner".

On Monday, the ANC announced its national executive committee (NEC) unanimously decided to suspend Zuma to protect its integrity, as ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula put it.  

But it was not his corruption scandals or the instances of trampling on the Constitution that finally saw Zuma ejected from his party of 66 years, but his announcement on 16 December he would not vote or campaign for the ANC, throwing in his weight behind the fledgling uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party instead.