COSATU no letters, white background.jpg Neither Gordhan nor Zuma COSATU post-SCEC Statement, redacted Treasury and Reserve Bank are the biggest obstacles The South African government's economic policy is still based on the neo-liberal paradigm and the National Treasury working with the Reserve Bank are responsible for these policies. Our economy remains highly monopolised and foreign owned and is still largely in the hands of a white minority. The National Treasury and the Reserve Bank constitute the biggest obstacles to the government's economic programme and they both need to be urgently realigned and given a new mandate. Going forward we will support the new Finance Minister where necessary and fight with him where necessary. President Zuma must go COSATU no longer believes that the president is the right person to unite and lead the movement, the Alliance and the country. We think that after all his undeniable contribution to both the movement and government, the time has arrived for him to step down and allow the country to be led forward by a new collective at a government level. We no longer believe in his leadership abilities and we shall be communicating that decision to our ally the ANC. The CEC will also be demanding both the movement and the president to give us an explanation on why we were not consulted. The federation plans to directly communicate this decision of the SCEC to its members including discussing its implications. COSATU will also be talking to all its Alliance partners, community, religious and societal organisations to discuss this decision and the way forward. We would have loved to communicate this decision internally with the ANC first but in the absence of such engagement, we are left with no choice but to communicate our decision in public. We want an Alliance where partners are treated as equals! Led by the ANC and by the working class We want an alliance which is led by the ANC that understands and accept in practice the leading role of the working class as a primary motive force in the National Democratic Revolution. We will never march with the DA and its friends, and the only march we will join that will be led by the DA will be if they are going to Cape Town to call for Helen Zille to resign. We call on our members not to support any march to Luthuli House, because we view that as an act of provocation. We call on the ANC MPs to refuse to be led by the opposition parties. COSATU condemns those who are calling for school boycotts. President to blame for credit agency interference The credit rating agency S&P's decision to downgrade the country is interference in our domestic political affairs. We hold responsible and culpable the President of the Republic Jacob Zuma because it is his inattentive and negligent leadership and disruptive actions that have emboldened these agencies to interfere in this country's political affairs. Full Statement is at: http://www.cosatu.org.za/show.php?ID=12610 Issued by COSATU on 4 April 2017 Contact: Sizwe Pamla, National Spokesperson, 010 2191339 and 060 975 6794 E-Mail: [email protected] __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of malware database 15201 (20170404) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- 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/000001d2ad70%243ec9ca40%24bc5d5ec0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
