ANC, SACP and COSATU are united Therefore they are a 'faction', says Jim eNCA, Johannesburg, 24 August 2013 The ANC and the South African Communist Party have been accused of taking sides in the COSATU leadership battle by trade union Numsa's General Secretary, Irvin Jim. He says both organisations have decided to back COSATU president Sdumo Dlamini. He was responding to statements made at a Popcru meeting earlier this week by the ANC's Gwede Mantashe and the SACP's Blade Nzimande. Jim also poured water on behind-the-scenes mediation efforts by a group of founding COSATU leaders. Jim said the Popcru political school held earlier this week was merely a platform to attack Zwelinzima Vavi's supporters. He has also confirmed reports of mediation efforts by a group of old COSATU leaders, but has expressed little confidence they will succeed in uniting COSATU. "We're not sure what kind of help they would bring because quite frankly the issues have been driven," said Jim. "From where we're sitting, we have witnessed both the ANC and the Communist Party taking a factional side, siding with Sdumo openly both the SG of the ANC and Blade Nzimande they've taken side(s)." Gwede Mantashe's statement to COSATU, "You gave power to General Secretaries.", has infuriated Jim. "He has been a lone voice who speaks in the NUM, in the COSATU congresses, that has been our own experience. "Suddenly, now that things are not going his own way, he's launching an attack." Jim further added that his union will respond in full to the ANC and the SAPC factional postures over the weekend. From http://www.enca.com/south-africa/numsa-accuses-anc-and-sacp-taking-sides-COS ATU-battle -- -- 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] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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