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BusinessLive reports that with a week to go before the country’s 8 May general election, President Cyril Ramaphosa took advantage of Cosatu’s main May Day rally in KwaZulu-Natal to woo voters.
He described next week’s elections as “critical” and urged the governing party’s supporters to go out in their numbers and vote. Ramaphosa said it was the workers who produced the wealth in the country and yet they had been denied the opportunity to share in the riches. Cosatu was the first organisation to endorse Ramaphosa’s bid for the presidency of the ANC ahead of its 2017 Nasrec conference, and has been campaigning for a strong mandate for the president ahead of the 2019 elections. Ramaphosa praised Cosatu for its participation in the job summit he held earlier in 2019, saying that the federation had helped identify areas where more jobs could be created and that those ideas were being implemented. He also said the R300bn that was pledged by companies at an investment conference would be utilised to create more jobs so that “we can swell the ranks of the employed workers”, who would hopefully join unions, specifically Cosatu affiliates. The president told workers that the government was cleaning out the rot at Eskom, saying those who were responsible would be held accountable.
- Read the full original of Genevieve Quintal’s report on the rally at BusinessLive
- Read too, Ramaphosa assures workers at May Day rally the government will never betray them, at Independent News
- And also, Blade Nzimande calls on workers to give ANC decisive poll victory, at EWN
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