By Sihle Mavuso
ANC first deputy Secretary-General Nomvula Mokonyane has rejected claims the party abandoned the working class and poor by entering a government of national unity (GNU) after its losses in the 2024 general elections.
Mokonyane said the ANC would be “the last party” to betray its traditional support base, dismissing criticism that the coalition arrangement amounted to a sell-out.
She was speaking at a Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) May Day rally held at the Curries Fountain Stadium in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, on Friday, where she also called for unity among the Tripartite alliance partners ahead of the November 4 Local Government Elections.
“We are a mass-based organisation, we are an ANC that is a broad movement, an ANC that is biased to the working class and the poor, we are the products, we are the kids, we are the daughters of the working class and the
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