The ANC-led tripartite alliance is no closer to reaching a solution to the many problems it is confronted with after labour federation Cosatu on Monday postponed a bilateral meeting with the party at the 11th hour. ANC leaders met on Sunday in preparation for the meeting with its labour partner, only to be told the meeting scheduled for Monday could not go ahead due to the unavailability of Cosatu general secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali. Another alliance meeting that failed to sit recently was the political council, a composition of all the top leaders in the ANC, South African Communist Party (SACP) and Cosatu. Leaders of the alliance have been vocal about its failings, describing its current state as in "disarray". Although Eyewitness News reported on Monday that Cosatu had boycotted the meeting due to the ANC’s own cancellation of the political council of the alliance, the labour federation said this was untrue. Despite this denial, a leader in the federation told Business Day tha...
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