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Cosatu president Zingiswa Losi, speaking at an event.
The Congress of the South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has called on its alliance partners, the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP), to sort out their tension and not to drag it into their differences.
Relations between the two historical allies have been rocky following the Communist Party’s decision to contest the 2026 local elections independently.
The party says that for over two decades, the ANC has been refusing to reconfigure the alliance.
But speaking at Cosatu’s 8th Central Committee meeting in Benoni, east of Johannesburg, the federation’s president Zingiswa Losi urged the two alliance partners not to allow their differences to divide the workers.
“Comrades, we love the ANC of Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela. We love the SACP of Joe Slovo and Chris Hani. We need our alliance partners to resolve their challenges and to engage the federation on this. We need the alliance to unite and radically reconfigure to ensure that it’s an anchor of government, the centre of political direction for the nation.”
“We need both the ANC and the SACP to appreciate the unity of the federation. We are making this appeal, Mr President, the ANC and the SACP do not divide workers; do not divide Cosatu,” adds Losi.
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