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South Africa: Zuma re-election in trouble as largest trade union NUMSA breaks with ANC
He also floated the idea of establishing a new socialist party. “The time for looking for an alternative has arrived,” he told hundreds of cheering members at the end of a 4-day congress, floating the idea of establishing a new socialist party.
“NUMSA will explore the establishment of a Movement for Socialism as the working class needs a political organisation committed to its policies and actions.”
He said the working class had been used as “voting fodder” through the alliance which only operates around election. “Swelling the ranks has merely resulted in delivering more working class victims like lambs to the slaughter by the ANC’s bourgeois leadership.”
The ANC is still expected to win next year’s vote, but with Zuma under fire and unemployment high the party could see a drop in its share of the vote to under 60 percent.
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