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BL Premium reports that despite the recent tension between the two organisations, labour federation Cosatu has resolved to support the ANC during this year’s local government elections.
Cosatu, which claims to have more than 1.8-million members, has been campaigning for the ANC during national elections since 1994, thereby giving the ruling party access to its extensive grassroots structures and membership. “We are not abandoning the ANC yet because, as part of the alliance, we do not want to open a political vacuum that will see the organisation hijacked by the reactionary and criminal elements who have been attempting to capture it since the 1994 democratic breakthrough,” Cosatu general secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali told a media briefing on Thursday after the federation’s two-day central executive committee (CEC) meeting. The labour federation was the first ANC-aligned structure to back President Cyril Ramaphosa’s campaign for the ANC presidency in 2017 and is vocal in its support of his plans to rid the ANC and the government of corruption and revive the ailing economy. But in the past year it has been threatening to withhold its support for the ruling party after the government reneged on a 2018 wage deal with Cosatu’s public sector affiliates. The CEC meeting resolved to convene urgent bilateral political meetings with the ANC and the SACP within 14 days to discuss the challenges workers face in SA.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Luyolo Mkentane at BusinessLive (paywall access only)
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