President Zuma Must resign SA supporters

Supporters of President Jacob Zuma are still waiting inside Germiston stadium to see if their under pressure leader is going to address them. 

There's no sign of him yet, but in the meantime the Minister of Water and Sanitation, Nomvula Mokonyane, has been keeping the crowd warm with a speech in support of the ANC. 

The roughly 300 supporters in the stadium were told "The president will join while we are in the programme

South Africa's largest trade union, Cosatu, says it plans to meet President Jacob Zuma "as soon as possible" at his request, Reuters news agency reports.

It comes hours after the group, a key ally of Mr Zuma's governing African National Congress (ANC) party, called on the president to step down (see earlier entries).

Sizwe Pamla, the union's spokesman, said the meeting would discuss the cabinet reshuffle that triggered a credit rating downgrade by S&P to junk status and the risks this posed to workers in Africa's most industrialised country, Reuters adds.

Cosatu leader S'dumo Dlamini revealed that Mr Zuma had phoned him early on Tuesday, requesting an urgent meeting, the local Times Live news website reports.

Asked whether or not the federation would retract their call for the president to step down‚ Mr Dlamini said they would "consider" that option, the report adds.

An anti-Zuma portest has been taking place in the city of Port Elizabeth, organised by the civil society group Save South Africa.

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