POLITICAL WEEK AHEAD: Cosatu examines its role in changed landscape
Tough choices for Cosatu at its special central executive committee meeting on Monday, having lost two affiliates
A BATTERED, bruised and significantly weakened labour federation, Cosatu holds a special central executive committee meeting on Monday, having lost two affiliates. Cosatu, once considered a powerful counterbalancing force in the tripartite alliance and an influential voice for the downtrodden in SA, will introspect about its response to current political challenges in the alliance. Although Cosatu president Sdumo Dlamini is thought to be an ally of President Jacob Zuma, a key agenda item at the meeting will be whether or not the union federation will publicly back Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa to succeed Zuma. However, Cosatu itself has been ravaged by factionalism that has resulted in the wholesale purge of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) from the federation and the Food and Allied Workers Union’s (Fawu’s) voluntary exit from the umbrella body. In August, Cosatu said that workers, its core constituency, no longer had confidence in Zuma. On the parliamentary fron...
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