Johannesburg - President Jacob Zuma is not indispensable, Cosatu general secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali said on Tuesday.
"The ANC is capable to fill that position. There are a number of ANC comrades within the ANC," he said at a briefing on the trade union federation's central executive committee meeting on Monday.
The committee resolved that Zuma should step down.
He said the African National Congress was not found wanting when it recalled then president Thabo Mbeki in September 2008.
Cosatu was reacting to Zuma's Cabinet reshuffle, which he announced on Thursday night. Finance minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas were among those axed.
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