Imraan Buccus – The left must break away from the ANC now: Excluded from power in the ruling party, Cosatu and the SACP need to rethink their strategy
As South Africa prepares to focus on the 111th anniversary of the ANC on Sunday, 8 January, there seems to be no escape from talk of factions in the party.
The ANC left was, in a significant development, excluded from the NEC. This would have been almost impossible to imagine even a few years ago. As a result, the recent internal ANC elections mark a decisive defeat for the left and a decisive victory for the neoliberals — a victory from which the black minorities have been excluded as the ANC collapses into the sort of crude racial chauvinism that must have Steve Biko rolling in his grave.
If Cosatu and the SACP do, as logic dictates, decide to build a left bloc outside of the ANC this could represent an important shift in our politics. This would never have been possible while the SACP was under the stultifying and self-interested leadership of Blade Nzimande. But with a more dynamic leader in Solly Mapaila, there are understood to be real possibilities for renewal.
This project will not be able to get off the ground if the SACP and Cosatu remain in the grip of the ANC. Numsa has made it clear that it sees the ANC as irredeemably captured by the neoliberals and Abahlali baseMjondolo has been clear that it will not even meet, let alone collaborate, with any organisation that refuses to condemn the ongoing assassinations and arrests of its members. The ball, therefore, is now firmly in the court of Cosatu and the SACP.
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