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Original Post Date: 2004-02-26 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 2/26/2004 4:25:35 PM
S.Africa: SACP and Conservative union working together?
[This is a funny situation. Solidarity is an Afrikaan-dominated “Free Market” trade union. They have a huge membership and are extremely successful. But they have been playing the political game trying to court friends from the left. They’re probably involved in a lot of horse-trading in order to win support for certain legislation. I think that is what this is really all about.
I will reserve my opinion on Solidarity until we see who they endorse. I have actually met some of these people, including the man who heads it.
I am a believer in confrontation. My assessment is that nothing else will work with the ANC/SACP – EVER. All this ass-kissing is just not my thing. I simply believe that if one has values you must stick to it – even if it means going to war. I’d never be able to be a good politician. And its a good thing I don’t have power either – because if I did – there’d be a lot of dead people stinking up the place!! Jan]
An election alliance between the conservative, predominantly white Solidarity trade union and the New National Party would not be surprising -but with the SA Communist Party?
Solidarity, a trade union that represents a right-wing, mainly white section of the workforce, was expected to announce today which party it intended supporting in the April 14 elections.
Speculation doing the rounds last night was that Solidarity would announce a pact with the SACP, ANC and the Cosatu alliance partner with which it has been engaged in talks. This could be one of the oddest political couplings of this year’s elections.
However, Solidarity members, who converged in Muldersdrift, north-west of Johannesburg, at the union’s congress yesterday, still had to decide which party they should support.
There were several parties in attendance. The congress was graced by the presence of Finance Minister Trevor Manuel of the ANC, SACP secretary-general Blade Nzimande, Democratic Alliance MP Wikus Theron, New National Party chief whip Juli Kilian and Jaco Mulder of Freedom Front Plus.
After an address by Manuel, delegates went into a marathon meeting to thrash out Solidarity’s role in the elections, but not before Solidarity chief executive Flip Buys showered Manuel with praise.
Buys did acknowledge, though, that the union differed with the government on matters of taxation.
In pursuit of the aim of protecting and promoting the interest of its members, the union would like to engage with the government, big business, fellow trade unions and other role-players, he said.
“It is Solidarity’s policy not to allow itself to be isolated. We talk to political groupings about agreements as well as differences and would co-operate if it were to serve the interests of our members, but we shall not be tied to any particular organisation.
“Simply shutting up about problems does not serve the best interests of the country.”
Union spokesperson Dirk Herman said members had to deliberate on what stand to adopt: “Initially we had an option of registering our own political party, but that was unanimously rejected. We are now left with an option whether to align ourselves with a specific party, endorse an alliance with any party or stay independent.”
Source: The Star, Johannesburg
URL: http://www.star.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=12…br>