LETTER: Cosatu’s blind spot
Organised labour never takes the ANC to task for its wasteful, damaging demographic obsessions
In opposing the DA bill to anchor public sector wages to SA’s debt level, Cosatu acting national spokesperson Matthew Parks said the causes of our fiscal crisis were not public sector wages (“Cosatu rejects ‘anti-worker’ DA bill”, March 13). Instead it was “corruption, wasteful expenditure, mismanaged state-owned enterprises, tax evasion and a stagnant economy”.
How right he is. But how does Cosatu then square this charge sheet with its membership of the tripartite alliance? It is the very ANC race-based demographic policy, manifesting in cadre deployment and cadre contracts, that has facilitated these pathologies.
One never sees organised labour taking the governing party to task for its wasteful and damaging demographic obsessions. A severe case of cognitive dissonance?
Willem Cronje
Cape Town
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