Alliance partner SACP says much progress has been made under the ANC. Image: SABC News
ANC alliance partners say much progress has been made
ANC alliance partner SACP says much progress has been made, and workers should not turn their backs on the ANC despite its challenges.
Alliance partner SACP says much progress has been made under the ANC. Image: SABC News
The African National Congress (ANC) alliance partners have warned workers not to turn their backs on the ANC when it’s time to vote, and they must not expect too much.
They say despite the many challenges faced, from load shedding to unemployment and crime, much progress has been made under the ANC.
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SACP: MASSES EXPECTING TOO MUCH FROM ANC
“The masses of our people are expecting too much from our liberation movement and its ideals and therefore we must stand with them and deal with populist forces who want to divide our movement and the direction of our revolution,” said Solly Mapaila, general-secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP), which is an alliance partner, during an interview with Timeslive.
Mapaila said despite the many challenges facing the ANC, from unemployment to load shedding, it has weathered the storm. He also warned that the state and country are under threat of a counter-revolution being “brewed from inside and outside the liberation movement.
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STATE AND COUNTRY UNDER THREAT SAYS MAPAILA
Mapaila congratulated the ANC on its 112th anniversary but warned that the state and country are under threat of a counter-revolution being brewed from inside and outside the liberation movement.
“The outside threat comes from monopoly capital that seeks to maintain compatibility at all cost against the wellbeing of our people. The time has come for this revolution to no longer compromise and continue to guarantee profitability of capital at the expense of our people without reckoning with its own mortal demise or ultimate collapse in the revolution.”
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COSATU: RAMAPHOSA MUST ROLL OUT INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMME
Cosatu president Zingiswa Losi called on the ANC government to roll out the infrastructure programme and fill vacant posts for public servants.
The alliance partner said: “We want you to make decisive intervention on the 36 municipalities that are failing to pay municipal workers what is due to them. We want you to rescue our state-owned entities. Let’s deal with load-shedding. The ANC must heal the wounds experienced by public service when they were robbed of their 2018 resolution one-wage agreement. The reality is that owes workers, despite what the court says,” she said.
