WATCH: Phillip Dexter on Tripartite Alliance tensions
Phillip Dexter of PAIS spoke to eNCA on the state of unions in the South African polity, as well as the role that they have to play in uniting the working class.
Phillip Dexter spoke to eNCA on tensions within the Tripartite alliance, and the role that unions have to play.
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Watch Phillip Dexter on Tripartite Alliance tensions after Gwede Mantashe was boo’ed off the stage with chants of “hamba nathi Gwede” (Go away Gwede) and “Asinamali” (We have no money), Phillip Dexter analyses the tensions within the ruling alliance between the African National Congress (ANC), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), and the South African Communist Party SACP).
Watch “Phillip Dexter on Tripartite Alliance tensions” below:
The analysis of Phillip Dexter on Tripartite Alliance ructions is that the political economy of South Africa since the democratic breakthrough of 1994 hasn’t changed much for the working class. Dexter contends that achieving working class unity would be a powerful tool of radicalizing the ANC to be more worker and poor-oriented, and this includes SAFTU and other trade union formations.
FROM SOWETAN LIVE:
ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe was booed off stage at Cosatu national congress in Midrand, Johannesburg, while attempting to address delegates on Monday.
Mantashe was reading himself to deliver a message of support on behalf of the ANC – Cosatu’s alliance partner – when conference delegates started singing and wouldn’t stop.
Delegates started singing “Asinamali” as Mantashe made his way to the stage at the Gallagher Convention Center.
When Cosatu first deputy president Mike Shingange tried to calm down the more than 1,800 delegates, chants grew louder instead and shouted “Hamba Gwede! Hamba.“
