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Trade union federation COSATU has resolved to support the ANC during the upcoming Local Government Elections despite tensions over the public sector wage freeze.
Speaking in Braamfontein on Thursday following the federation ‘s two-day Special Central Executive Committee (CEC), COSATU’s general secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali said the meeting concluded that despite the challenges facing the working class and the current tensions within the tripartite alliance, the trade union federation will not boycott the elections and will implement its resolution of supporting the ANC in the upcoming local government elections.
“We are not abandoning the ANC yet because as part of the Alliance, we do not want to open a political vacuum that will see the organisation hijacked by the reactionary and criminal elements who have been attempting to capture it since the 1994 democratic breakthrough,” said Ntshalintshali.
“The Central Committee will continue to assess the state of the Alliance
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