'Re-emerging' right wing worries ANC
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mahnmutThe ANC and its alliance partners in Gauteng have launched an offensive against a "re-emerging right wing", which the allies said was "attacking and challenging" South Africa's transformation agenda at every turn.
Briefing the media yesterday about the outcome of a three-day alliance summit held last week, the ANC and its alliance partners Cosatu and the SA Communist Party said the Freedom Front Plus, trade union Solidarity, and Afri-Forum were becoming an "enemy of the national democratic revolution".
Cosatu provincial secretary Dumisani Dakile said: "The question of the right-wing is not a challenge to the ANC only, it is a challenge to the whole alliance.
"Political gains that we have made are being challenged. After 1994 we had a threat by the right-wing element. And at a certain stage we felt that we had defeated the right wing, but it is re-emerging now as an enemy of the national democratic revolution."
He said Solidarity, Afri-Forum and the FF Plus were opposing everything from liberation struggle songs, to name changes, employment equity and boycotting rates in an attempt to destabilise local government.
"Take the name change from Pretoria to Tshwane, regardless of the sacrifices and compromises that have been made by the city of Tshwane to accommodate them by ensuring that the CBD remains Pretoria, they have been very consistent in terms of attack," Dakile said.
"You take for example, the issues of the employment equity act and transformation in the workplace, it is one area that they have been very consistent in attacking. So the entire transformative agenda ... they have been attacking it."
"These people" were beginning to gain confidence, he said, adding that "they oppose any progressive agenda that is pursued in this country".
Equally unhappy was ANC provincial secretary David Makhura.
"Black people have extended a hand of reconciliation in order to build this country. But right-wing forces are taking advantage of this to want to undo every aspect of transformative policy."
Of the controversial dubul ibhunu song he said: "That's why, on the songs, it's not about Julius Malema, it's about freedom songs that inspired us and continue to inspire us."
Briefing the media yesterday about the outcome of a three-day alliance summit held last week, the ANC and its alliance partners Cosatu and the SA Communist Party said the Freedom Front Plus, trade union Solidarity, and Afri-Forum were becoming an "enemy of the national democratic revolution".
Cosatu provincial secretary Dumisani Dakile said: "The question of the right-wing is not a challenge to the ANC only, it is a challenge to the whole alliance.
"Political gains that we have made are being challenged. After 1994 we had a threat by the right-wing element. And at a certain stage we felt that we had defeated the right wing, but it is re-emerging now as an enemy of the national democratic revolution."
He said Solidarity, Afri-Forum and the FF Plus were opposing everything from liberation struggle songs, to name changes, employment equity and boycotting rates in an attempt to destabilise local government.
"Take the name change from Pretoria to Tshwane, regardless of the sacrifices and compromises that have been made by the city of Tshwane to accommodate them by ensuring that the CBD remains Pretoria, they have been very consistent in terms of attack," Dakile said.
"You take for example, the issues of the employment equity act and transformation in the workplace, it is one area that they have been very consistent in attacking. So the entire transformative agenda ... they have been attacking it."
"These people" were beginning to gain confidence, he said, adding that "they oppose any progressive agenda that is pursued in this country".
Equally unhappy was ANC provincial secretary David Makhura.
"Black people have extended a hand of reconciliation in order to build this country. But right-wing forces are taking advantage of this to want to undo every aspect of transformative policy."
Of the controversial dubul ibhunu song he said: "That's why, on the songs, it's not about Julius Malema, it's about freedom songs that inspired us and continue to inspire us."
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Date: 2010-04-02 05:46 pm (UTC)I thought the ANC would be social-democrats, as I understand the term (which is very little)
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Date: 2010-04-02 09:32 pm (UTC)