We thought Zuma would 'bring things back on track' after Mbeki - Ehrenreich
2 May 2017
Cape Town – Cosatu provincial secretary general Tony Ehrenreich says the union once supported President Jacob Zuma because they believed he would centre Thabo Mbeki's conservative policies.
Ehrenreich told News24 this week that Zuma once represented a return to workers' issues ahead of the ANC's Polokwane conference in 2007, but what they got under Zuma was clearly not that.
"Cosatu committed to the ANC because the ANC's policy was the Freedom Charter," he said.
"Mbeki wasn't implementing that. He was the main driver of implementing the GEAR policy in 1996. There was a big push to privatise, to outsource a lot of the function of parastatals.