IOL News reports that Cosatu plans to fight for the unity and cohesion of its alliance with the ANC and SACP, as the governing party prepares for its elective conference later in the year.  

The labour federation’s central executive committee (CEC) said the only way the ANC could recover from last year’s local government election bruising was for the party to reassert its revolutionary values and tackle seriously the issues of corruption and factionalism.  General secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali said on Thursday at Cosatu’s post-CEC media briefing:  “We (Cosatu) will work hard to implement the values of unity, selflessness, sacrifice, collective leadership, humanity, honesty, discipline, hard work, internal debates, constructive self-criticism and mutual respect.”  Cosatu also doesn’t believe that the ANC has any future if it does not change direction in how it governs the country, and places people at the centre of its governing priorities.  It said it was pleased that the ANC was revisiting the radical economic transformation policy agenda.

• Read this report by Zintle Mahlati in full at IOL News
• Read Cosatu’s post-CEC press statement at Cosatu Today

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