ANA reports that the National Union of Mineworkers’ Women’s Structure (NUM-WS) on Sunday expressed unhappiness with the ANC Women’s League (ANCWL) for attacking labour federation Cosatu over the social grants fiasco.  

The NUM-WL said it was “deeply saddened by the outrageous and unfounded attack by the [ANCWL] on [the] Cosatu CEC [central executive committee] and the leadership collective of all the federation’s affiliates.”  It went on to state:  “This all happens when 17 million South Africans social grant beneficiaries (majority which are women and children) are facing a hopeless and bleak upcoming reality of not being able to revise their only source of income next month.  This is due to ‘someone’ sleeping on the job, as the Constitutional Court gave Sassa [SA Social Security Agency] and the Department of Social Development ample time to look for an appropriate service provider.”  Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini is also ANCWL president.

• Read this report in full at The Citizen
• Read too, Cosatu in war of words with ANC Women’s League, at News24
• And also, Cosatu reiterates call for Dlamini to be fired, warns of consequences, at eNCA

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