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BDLive reports that labour federation Cosatu on Wednesday called for restraint between its affiliate, the Communication Workers Union (CWU), and the SA Communist Party (SACP).
This followed an exchange of "verbal hand grenades" this week. On Monday, the CWU inter alia alleged that the SACP had joined with "neo-liberal forces" to undermine the union’s presence in companies in which it organises, including the SABC and ANN7. The CWU further criticised ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe as the "main embodiment of the extreme form of arrogance that is being associated with the ANC lately". The SACP responded in a statement that “this venomous and slanderous attack seems to bear great resemblance and to fit neatly into the current and existing scheme of factional gangs and networks in our movement."
On Wednesday, Cosatu called for an end to attacks and the public trading of insults, expressing confidence in both the tripartite alliance and the CWU leadership.
- Read this report by Karl Gernetzky in full at BDLive
- See too, Cosatu calls for restraint in spat between CWU and SACP, at The New Age
- Read Cosatu’s press statement in this regard at Cosatu Today
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