New Age2.png Quo Vadis COSATU and SACP? Question of state capture a sticking point between struggle comrades Bonolo Selebano, The New Age, Johannesburg, 15 June 2016 The differences of opinion between the ANC's alliance partners has been laid bare as both COSATU and the SACP have "agreed to disagree" on key issues facing the governing party. Following a bilateral meeting this week, The New Age has been informed by a senior COSATU official that, although the meeting tried to "bridge the gap" between the alliance partners, COSATU and SACP remained at opposite ends of the pole on the question of state-capture, and the banks' boycott of Oakbay Investments and the leadership of President Jacob Zuma. "The meeting did not achieve much, people left with the same positions," the official who spoke on condition of anonymity said. The official said COSATU "appreciated" the SACP's views on supporting the decision taken by the country's big four banks to withdraw the banking facilities of Oakbay, thus putting thousands of jobs on the line. "We are a trade union federation, we don't have the luxury of politicising issues. The workplace is our first priority. They (SACP) are a political party, so they will look at things politically," the official said. "It's a problem when you abandon workers. As COSATU we can't justify it". The official said that the decision by the ANC to close its state-capture probe also surfaced during discussions. It was said that while COSATU respected the ANC's decision to close the matter, the SACP wanted to reopen the investigation. "They did not change their position, they would like to see it resuscitated," the official said. COSATU's perceived attack on Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan was also raised. This follows COSATU's call for the repositioning of the national Treasury and the Reserve Bank at the conclusion of its central executive committee meeting last month. "Our posture on the Treasury is informed by an economic reality. It's not political." Recent calls for Zuma to leave office following the Constitutional Court judgment on Nkandla did not feature in the discussions. Despite the differences the organisations are at one on the need to escalate the campaign for a comprehensive social security system and the national minimum wage. [email protected] From: http://tnaepaper.co.za/DRIVE/main%20edition/15062016/epaperpdf/4.pdf -- -- 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]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/001601d1c6c5%24c21f1950%24465d4bf0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
