XOLISA PHILLIP: Same old vilification of an individual by men in ANC alliance
‘Where are the women revolutionaries? Where are the female voices in these movements; do women not matter?’
There is something poetic about tripartite alliance partners the South African Communist Party (SACP) and Cosatu both being on song about the need for President Jacob Zuma to vacate the Union Buildings urgently. These same voices of reason were also in chorus while drumming up support for Zuma on the road to Polokwane. One cannot help but observe how Blade Nzimande and his SACP cohorts are ruthlessly clear and decisive when they smell a political opportunity. The same goes for Cosatu. It is the same cast of characters, with a few new faces, who are agitating 10 years later, as was the case in 2007, for the head of state to leave office before his term has expired. Since when have the ANC’s succession politics been the central tenet of the SACP and Cosatu’s programmes of action? Did they learn nothing from Polokwane and Mangaung, which each in turn gave rise to Cope and the EFF, while simultaneously decimating core Cosatu affiliates and haemorrhaging the labour federation itself? Oth...
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