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BDLive reports that former Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi will not be voting for the ANC for the first time since 1994.
The upcoming 2016 local government election is the first since Cosatu fired Vavi and expelled its former largest affiliate, the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) for taking a decision not to campaign for the ANC in the 2014 election. On Sunday, Vavi endorsed a United Front (UF) candidate in the Eastern Cape, who is contesting in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro. The UF is a social formation initiated by Numsa. It is a precursor to a political party which the union hopes to launch. Indicating that "unfortunately" there was no UF candidate contesting elections in his area in Gauteng, Vavi said that voting the ANC back into power would be a vote against workers. He will also not vote for the DA, which he said has similar "neoliberal policies" as the ANC. He would not be drawn on whether he would vote for the EFF.
- Read this report by Natasha Marrian, which gives some further information on the UF, at BDLive
- See too, Numsa’s United Front due to unveil Eastern Cape candidates, at IOL News
- And also, Ditch ‘butchers’, Numsa’s United Front urges working class, at Daily News
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