POLITICS
NATASHA MARRIAN: Numsa's new party likely to be stillborn
Numsa's worker party is gearing up to contest the 2019 elections
Yet another political party is gearing up to contest the 2019 elections. As the electorate collectively rolls its eyes, Numsa’s Socialist Revolutionary Worker Party fancies itself as having a shot at capturing the imagination of at least enough South Africans to land it in parliament. As does Andile Mngxitama’s Gupta militia, Black First Land First. But apart from from international political trends going against the left and leaning ever more harrowingly to the right — even the Brazilians voted in hard right-winger Jair Bolsonaro — Numsa’s worker party is entering hostile terrain. For those with short memories, Numsa has been down this road before, when its “United Front” contested the 2016 local government elections, mainly in the Eastern Cape. The party germinated in 2013 when Numsa resolved at a special national congress to call on union federation Cosatu to leave the alliance and form a workers’ party to contest future elections. Conflict within Numsa’s leadership was at the he...
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