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eNCA reports that harsh words from former trade unionist and minister Jay Naidoo at the launch of his new book in Durban were that the ANC-Cosatu alliance was dead, but it had already discredited the work of unions in SA.
A former Cosatu general secretary and a minister under Nelson Mandela, Naidoo relived some of those memories at the launch of his book, Organising Tomorrow Today. He bemoaned the fate of the once-strong trade union federation and blamed this on the alliance with the ANC. Naidoo said: “We should have pulled out in 1996. It's too late now, that alliance is dead from 1996 and it's been in the ICU in a coma, it's time to pull the plug on it now." Naidoo also said the federation should never have expelled the National Union of Metal Workers of SA (Numsa). He furthermore took aim at Cosatu affiliate Sadtu for failing the education system.
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