ANC alliance only reliable force for workers: NUMSAMay 24, 2011 1:29 PM| By SAPA ------------------------------ The local government elections have confirmed the ANC-led alliance as the only reliable force to address the challenges of the working class inherited from apartheid and colonial rule, the National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) said. ------------------------------ Samwu strikers. File Picture. *Photograph by: .*
"The democratic local government elections have taken place in the middle of the 1.17 million jobs being lost in our economy. This has plunged more than 5.5 million working class households to the gallows of poverty," said spokesman Castro Ngobese in a statement. "We have observed with our eagle eyes the unprecedented and violence ridden service delivery protests in mainly ANC-led alliance strongholds, deficiencies in many local municipalities to deliver basic services to the poor, the embarrassing open-air toilets built by ANC-led local governments in Free State and Khutsong respectively and the sustained offensive launched by the un-elected bourgeois media against the ANC-led alliance. "This will require the ANC-led alliance to champion a radical programme that seeks to transfer the bulk of the wealth of our country into the hands of the people as a whole as dictated by the Freedom Charter and the historic 1969 Morogoro Conference of the ANC," Ngobese said. "We must turn local government into a strategic site of power in reversing the ugliness of joblessness faced by the poor in working class communities. This ANC-led alliance electoral victory imposes on us to further intensify the call for land redistribution and economic redistribution of wealth that is concentrated in the hands of a tiny racist white minority, and intensify our demand for nationalisation of mines, banks and other monopoly industries," he said. "As the late SACP [South African Communist Party] general secretary Comrade Chris Hani once said 'a new South Africa will be meaningless if we do not address the social living conditions of the majority poor'. "But our observations are clear that we need to close the huge gap that exists between Diepsloot and Knysna in the interest of our revolution and her people," Ngobese said. -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
