Some safe bets in SA’s turbulent politics are that massive unemployment will persist, poverty will remain widespread and the ANC will stay in power.
The ANC and Cosatu will on Monday try to repair their governing alliance, which has been described "dysfunctional".
President Jacob Zuma on Saturday accused striking state workers of abandoning the sick at hospitals and said he expected a deal to be reached soon.
Cosatu on Thursday warned that its alliance with the ANC is "dysfunctional" because of "confusion" over power.
Public-sector unions representing more than a million workers staged a one-day strike on Tuesday, threatening an extended labour stoppage this week.
More than a million public-sector workers plan to strike on Tuesday in what could be a prelude to prolonged industrial action.
The government raised its pay offer to civil servants on Thursday to try to avert a strike by nearly a million public workers.
Unions representing thousands of workers at power utility Eskom said on Friday they were not planning an imminent strike over wages.
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/ 9 November 2009
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