ANC- ALLIANCE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTORAL VICTORY MUST BE ABOUT A RADICAL DEPARTURE FROM OUR COLONIAL AND APARTHEID ECONOMIC PATTERNS!
Tuesday 24 May 2011
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) as a strategic component of the National Liberation Movement as led by the African National Congress (ANC) takes this opportunity to salute the South African workers and poor people for their continued confidence in the ANC-led Alliance by retaining it to power in just ended local government elections.
These 3rd democratic local government elections have taken place in the middle of the 1, 17 million jobs being lost in our economy. This has plunged more than 5,5 million working class households to the gallows of poverty, we have observed with our eagle eyes the unprecedented and violence ridden service delivery protests in mainly ANC-led Alliance strongholds, deficiencies in many local municipalities to deliver basic services to the poor, the embarrassing ‘open-air' toilets built by ANC-led local governments in Free State and Khutsong respectively and the sustained offensive launched by the un-elected bourgeois media against the ANC-led Alliance.
These elections have confirmed the ANC-led Alliance as the only reliable force that is better positioned to address the challenges in our working class communities imposed and inherited from the heinous apartheid regime and colonial rule.
This will require the ANC-led Alliance to champion a radical programme that seeks to transfer the bulk of the wealth of our country into the hands of the people as a whole as dictated by the Freedom Charter and the historic 1969 Morogoro Conference of the ANC.