Sunday World reports that the African National Congress (ANC) has suffered another blow after affiliates of trade union federation Cosatu last week rejected the proposal of crowd-funding for the financially ailing governing party.

The ANC has been battling to pay salaries to its staff. A heated debate over the electoral support for the ANC in the upcoming local government elections apparently took place last week during Cosatu’s four-day central executive committee meeting. In a strongly worded statement and clearly referring to the ANC’s failure to pay salaries, one of Cosatu’s biggest affiliates, the National Health, Education and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu), told Sunday World it had rejected the crowd-funding suggestion, which the union described as seeking to “subject workers to contribute their monies to the employer who does not value and respect workers like the ANC”.

• Read the original of the report in the above regard by George Matlala at Sunday World

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