City Press reports that the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) has shot down speculation that the union could bury the hatchet with the ANC and return to the alliance if a “unifying leader” were to be elected to succeed President Jacob Zuma later this year.  

“Our view is that the ANC succession process is not guided by a revolutionary agenda,” general secretary Irvin Jim said in an interview, adding that the ANC had “no political will to deal with or push for radical economic transformation; to address fundamental issues of ownership and control of the economy”.  He said the only solution was “to replace the ANC with a truly militant, revolutionary Workers Party”.  Numsa, with an estimated 360,000 members, was expelled from labour federation Cosatu two years ago for acting in opposition to Cosatu in a number of ways, including refusing to support the ANC in the 2014 elections.

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