Divisions in Cosatu have forced the federation to temporarily withhold its budgeted R8-million for the ANC’s election campaign.
Cosatu president Sdumo Dlamini’s supporters won almost all the debates at its central executive committee meeting – another blow for Zwelinzima Vavi.
New kids on the block, the EFF and Agang SA, are taking chunks out of the ANC’s youth base and middle class, an election survey has found.
The beleaguered general secretary’s pack came off second best at a meeting of the divided federation.
Cosatu will hold a special congress with its executives, but whether Zwelinzima Vavi’s fate will be on its agenda is yet to be decided.
The fired police boss’s popularity shows that ANC members believe he has a bigger role to play.
Cosatu says it cannot afford the special conference needed to discuss Zwelinzima Vavi’s fate, but his supporters have offered to fund it.
Branches in Gauteng want Vavi and Jim to be included on the list of those who will represent the ANC in Parliament after next year’s elections.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa’s plans to face off against the ANC will almost certainly lead to a split from Cosatu.
When the ANC battles itself in Limpopo and North West, it’s Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters that wins.