DA’s inclusion in GNU ‘unavoidable’ – COSATU
Updated | By Jacaranda FM and Tamasha Khanyi
Trade union federation Cosatu says the inclusion of the DA in the government of national unity is unavoidable.
It's stressed it remains opposed to the party being a part of the GNU.
The federation's Central Executive Committee met over the past few days and briefed reporters on their discussions on Monday.
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General Secretary Solly Phetoe accused the DA of having a history of opposing labour reforms aimed at improving workers' lives.
“If the DA is to be part of the GNU, then it must abandon its anti-work and anti-transformation agenda,” he said.
Cosatu Deputy President Mike Shingange added that whether or not DA members are in President Cyril Ramaphosa's cabinet, they should not be a reversal of the progress made over the last three decades through the labour policies aimed at improving workers’ rights and conditions.
"Their inclusion in the cabinet, for instance, in the economic cluster, will depend on which economic policy they are going to be implementing.
“For as long as the conduct or the mandate of any cabinet minister will be in line with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, it will be in line with the need to make change the living and the working conditions of South Africans that we will appreciate.”
“You can’t tell the president who to put in what position."
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