The Zuma faction, meanwhile, Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi, as an anti-Zuma man identifi

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Cosatu's alliance with the ANC was traditionally very valuable. It has huge amounts of money to the ANC's election contributed, and unions are generally better organized than political parties. And thanks to the Cosatu affiliate of unions such as the NUM, Numsa, Nehawu, Popcru and other numbers on his side - just big numbers.
Cosatu has obviously also within the ANC enormous influence. When the former Cosatu president Thabo Mbeki turn his back on, Jacob Zuma despite the cloud over his head, almost a free pass to the presidency gained.
Especially in the platinumgordel a union outside the Cosatu members strong start to rise, Amcu. Amcu in the process clashed with the NUM, which up to that time the largest union in Cosatu, and in many ways the backbone of Cosatu. The attack on the NUM in a time of great vulnerability come. The NUM's "shop stewards" were rather part of the goedbesoldigde management level, and in Rustenburg and other surrounding buffet warmers communities in the elite neighborhoods lived. The distance between them and the working class has become very large, and the perception existed that they serve the interests of management and the workers represented.
Secondly, the NUM him at the "Zuma faction" ranks. Many of the miners in the platinumgordel buffet warmers comes from the Eastern Cape and the Zuma sentiments are weak. The NUM was, however, a congressional election year assessment of the group that Zuma will toward him, defenses, and could Amcu NUM members like ripe fruit pick. By that time, the NUM has already complained about its members to join Numsa will, while Cosatu within an agreement that each union a particular sector will be represented. The desertion, however, focused industries in transition as Eskom - which also has mining interests - and the smelters at the mines occurred.
The Government's contemptuous behavior towards Amcu did not really help. Even after a big Amcu crippling strike, the minister has claimed she did not know Amcu's existence before the Marikana shooting.
Meanwhile, Numsa and some smaller Cosatu unions made it clear that they were the anti-Zuma groupings should. Numsa Meanwhile the NUM's role as the largest trade union Cosatu took over. In fact, the NUM is apparently no longer buffet warmers Cosatu's buffet warmers second largest trade union.
The Zuma faction, meanwhile, Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi, as an anti-Zuma man identified. Or Vavi really for that matter, was guilty is difficult to determine, and in the context of cadre deployment felt someone of that stature should be completely uncritical of Zuma be, was enough to him to get rid, is another question. Soon allegations round started doing that Vavi had acted improperly buffet warmers in selling Cosatu's old headquarters, but in the general context of the country where such a cloud over many, including Zuma hanging, it was not enough to Vavi dropping do not.
Vavi's extramarital affair with a junior employee is embraced as a mortal sin, like his opponents, Zuma included, as is the bone that matter. Vavi is suspended, but apparently made every effort to matters in suspension to keep until after the election - like holding a disciplinary buffet warmers hearing, or a special congress as a series of subsidiary, including Numsa demanded. Vavi and Xhosa with strong Eastern Cape ties, not simply in Zuma's framework of Zulu and Zumafikasie case.
Tuesday's meeting of top Cosatu leaders in the face on a collision buffet warmers sent off. In particular, two items on the agenda, the kick Numsa from Cosatu, Vavi and re-suspend the court released its suspension set aside, Cosatu to the brink of a collision is small.
The result is that gonna be a mediation to take place. The people who harnessed as mediators are not all as Zuma cadres identified, but rather in previously strong buffet warmers trade unionism stood.
It's probably like pleistertjies the cancer stick. The only way Numsa still within Cosatu will be for Cosatu to much stronger a radical communist character to take. Numsa have consistently made clear, after all, and even the "moderate" SACP which nestles in Zuma's pocket, taken under fire.
The country should take note that a collision within Cosatu a major setback for the ANC will be. But the voters are between the devil and the deep blue sea. Let the collision, then the ANC itself swung heavily to the left to reach the radicalism overcome