PHUTI MOSOMANE
COSATU President Zingiswa Losi on Monday reiterated that the tripartite alliance should be the political centre and urged the African National Congress (ANC) to return to its leftist roots.
In recent months, the Federation has called for the reconfiguration of the alliance, arguing that a reconfigured alliance will allow all components to drive transformation as a political centre under the leadership of the ANC.
The South African Communist Party (SACP), another key ally of the ANC, has also argued that the reconfiguration of the alliance was cardinal and should make “neoliberal policy prescripts, including austerity, as well as State Capture and other forms of corruption, a thing of the past”.
Losi delivered a keynote address at the May Day rally in Bethlehem, Free State, along with ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa and SACP General Secretary Solly Mapaila.
“We will insist that the ANC return to its roots as the
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