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BusinessLive reports that labour federation Cosatu, which has supported the ANC during elections since 1994, has thrown its weight behind the governing party’s manifesto.
It described the manifesto as progressive and a silver bullet to address the country’s socioeconomic crises, including creating employment and fixing ailing state-owned enterprises. Cosatu said the manifesto was a product of “robust engagements” between the ANC and its alliance partners, including Cosatu, the SACP and the SA National Civic Organisation. ANC leader Cyril Ramaphosa unveiled the election manifesto at Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on Saturday. The ANC, which is beset by operational, administrative, governance and financial challenges, planned to create more than 2.5-million job opportunities in the next five years, Ramaphosa said. Under the Ramaphosa presidency, SA has been dogged by low economic growth, rolling power cuts, failing infrastructure, the rising cost of living, high unemployment, systemic corruption and violent crime. But, Cosatu’s Matthew Parks said that the ANC manifesto provided a “sober and bold path for the next term that, if implemented, can see that challenges of unemployment, load-shedding, crime and corruption, poverty and inequality [are] overcome”. Several surveys have suggested the ANC’s electoral support could fall below 50% in the national and provincial elections to be held on 29 May.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Luyolo Mkentane at BusinessLive
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