Why workers should vote for the ANC

Message by COSATU to Workers and their families

Dear trade union member, fellow worker and your family

It is now 20 years since the ANC-led liberation movement achieved the democratic breakthrough in which COSATU played a decisive role. Now we are preparing for the fifth democratic elections since 1994 and, as we head towards 7th May, you may be asking: which party should I vote for?

We have seen many parties coming forward in the recent past, some of them new, presenting various claims which are more about what's wrong with the ANC than what they will do for the country and particularly for the working people. We see new political parties formed on the bases of anger against the ANC and promising heaven on earth.

As COSATU we have carefully considered the role played by various political parties and, especially, their approach to matters of concern to workers. Below we set out our analysis of the issues which workers should consider when they cast their vote, in particular looking at the track record of the different parties over the last five years.

In all elections that take place in the middle of a difficult transitional period, it is easy to forget what is at stake. It is easy for workers to be won over by fiery and apparently radical and revolutionary phrases and forget that you have particular interests, which cannot be served by all political parties, regardless of what they say in the run up to an election.

They have all failed to present anything better than the record of the ANC since 1994, and what the ANC offers the workers and the working class as a whole in its current manifesto.

Comrade Nelson Mandela warned about the danger of what may seem as revolutionary solutions which will deliver long-awaited solutions immediately: "The struggle that will free us is a long, hard job. Do not be deceived by men who talk big with no thought for tomorrow. Freedom is not just a matter of strong words. Neither is it simply brave men and heroic deeds. Impatience, which makes men lose their heads, will not bring freedom".

Elsewhere in the world, societies that scored victories over dictatorial and oppressive regimes have sometimes allowed those very same oppressors

- often under new names - to return to power in the elections following the democratic victories, or to allow anti-worker forces to destabilise their democratic transformation. Workers in Nicaragua, Chile and Britain (under Margaret Thatcher) know the bitter pain of replacing parties that are sympathetic to workers with those whose agenda is the systematic undermining and violation of worker rights.

Workers in Germany and Australia can tell a painful story about their life under conservative governments and why they back Social Democratic and Labour Parties during elections as opposed to the rest of other parties.

Their rights were systematically taken away under the guise of a "flexible labour market" which they were promised would create jobs. In reality, those claiming to be concerned about job creation in these countries implemented anti-worker policies, which saw attacks on unions, removal of basic protections, rising inequality, and growing poverty amongst working people.

Informed by some of these historic experiences and also based on our own experiences we have continuously used our congresses and other meetings to assess the performance of the ANC in government. We have come to a conclusion that the working class and the country have made significant gains since the democratic breakthrough of April 1994. These gains need to be defended at all times as they are under constant threat from the right-wing and neoliberal ideologues.

It was on this basis that we took a resolution to mobilise for the decisive victory of the ANC in these coming 2014 General Elections.

We know that while the overwhelming majority of our members support the ANC, some - albeit a minority - belong to other political parties. These COSATU members remain welcome in the federation and its affiliates. As a trade union movement, we are a home for all workers irrespective of political affiliation.

Our main agenda is to unite all workers so that they can improve their wages and working conditions and defend their jobs. At the same time, we do however want to ensure the successful transformation of our country.

Since its inception on 1 December 1985, COSATU accepted that the source of South Africa's exploitative and discriminatory laws and practices was the apartheid/colonial regime - supported by big business. So we recognised that to if we were to fight and win issues that were workplace-related, we also had to forge alliances with other democratic forces which were fighting to democratise all spheres of our society, including the workplace.

That is why COSATU decided to enter into alliances with progressive forces with a track record, and a mass following amongst the people, to end the exploitative and oppressive apartheid system. Based on these criteria, we combined forces with the UDF internally and the ANC, SACP and SACTU Alliance in exile. Soon after their unbanning of political organisations, we entered into a formal alliance with the ANC and the SACP.

It was these organisations, together with all those committed to eradicate racial oppression and exploitation that delivered a deadly blow to apartheid.

In the survey we conducted recently amongst workers on the support for the ANC and on whether COSATU should remain in Alliance with the ANC, results showed that more than two thirds of COSATU members said they would vote for the ANC. Reasons cited included its policies, governance and its efforts to achieve equality for Africans. The survey also showed that over 70% of COSATU members said COSATU should stay in the Alliance.

Evidence shows that with the ANC in government workers have secured a number of gains through labour market and socio-economic policies.

Even where there are disagreements, such as the weaknesses we have identified in some sections of the NDP, there is a clear commitment to have all our concerns properly and systematically addressed through Alliance mechanisms.

Workers Gains Secured Since 1994

As we mark 20 years since our democratic breakthrough, we should ask what it is that the ANC has done for the workers since then.

1. Constitution

The ANC has ensured that workers enjoy the following constitutional guarantees:

a) The right to fair labour practices,

b) The right to form and join trade unions, strike and picket.

c) The right to conclude union security agreements such as closed and agency shop;

d) The right to collective bargaining

The ANC-led Alliance blocked the inclusion of a lock out clause in the Constitution.

The constitution also contains other rights that are important to workers, for instance the right to water, housing and other socio-economic rights, the right to access information, accountability of public enterprises and procurement policy for social objectives

2. Labour Relations Act

The Labour Relations Act passed by government in 1995 benefits workers in that it:

a) Strengthens the organisational rights of workers and their trade unions and protects workers in legal strikes;

b) Promotes centralised bargaining and therefore strengthens united, industrial workers' unions

c) Covers all workers including historically excluded public service workers, farm and domestic workers;

d) Curtails arbitrary action by employers.

e) Gives the federation a right to take up socio economic strikes during which workers cannot be disciplined for their participation.

f) Gives workers a right to take solidarity action.

3. Basic Conditions of Employment Act

This Act radically improves the working conditions of millions of workers, in particular the vulnerable workers such as farm and domestic workers who don't have strong unions to protect their rights:

a) Child labour and forced labour are prohibited.

b) Those working overtime receive increased overtime pay of 'time and a half' rather than 'time and a third';

c) Annual leave is increased to 21 days with increased family responsibility leave;

d) Ordinary working hours are reduced to a 45 hours a week, with the aim of a further reduction to a 40 hours;

e) Four months maternity leave is guaranteed;

f) Notice of termination of employment has increased;

g) Workers have a right to severance pay of one week per completed year of service;

h) The Employment Conditions Commission is set up to advice the Minister on determination of minimum wages for particularly the vulnerable workers.

4. Employment Equity Act

This Act which was passed in 1998 promotes the constitutional right to equality which explicitly calls for measures to redress past imbalances. It further:

a) Encourages designated employers to implement affirmative action measures for people from designated groups.

b) Creates a framework to address the huge income inequality prevalent in our society.

c) Prohibits unfair discrimination on the basis of gender, race, sexual orientation etc.

d) Benefit black people (Africans, Coloureds & Indians), all women and people with disabilities.

5. Skills Development Act

The Act extends education and training to people both within and outside formal employment. The Act:

a) Makes provision for learnerships for young and unemployed people wishing to join the labour market.

b) Creates an enabling environment for expanded strategic investment in skills development.

c) Established a National Skills Fund to finance national priorities as defined in the national skill development strategy.

d) Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETA) will be established, to combine the functions of industry training boards and education and training quality assurance.

6. Occupational Health and Safety Act

A number of important initiatives were piloted by the ANC government, to improve health and safety standards. The Act:

a) Gives trade unions representatives the right to monitor an employer's compliance with legislation on terms and conditions of employment including health and safety and compensation laws;

b) Prohibits compulsory HIV testing by employers;

7. Mine Health and Safety Act

This act acknowledges that, unlike previously, workers' health is a very important matter.

a) It sets up strong tripartite structures.

b) Mine workers have now a right to refuse to do dangerous work.

c) It puts the union in a strong bargaining position in terms of health and safety agreements.

d) It gives workers a right to know, act and to participate.

e) The nature of inspectors has been changed - they are now more responsive

Vulnerable workers

All these acts have targeted the most vulnerable workers, including:

1) Domestic Workers

2) Hospitality sectoral

3) Contract cleaning

4) Civil engineering sector

5) Private security sector

6) Taxi sector

7) Wholesale and retail sector

8) Farm Workers

In particular the Sectoral determinations have made it unlawful for employers to pay less than a guaranteed basic wage, though a lot still needs to be done to enforce these determinations.

Other sectors where government intervention has impacted on workers

The automotive sector is critical because of its linkages with other industries.

Government has supported the sector through the Motor Industry Development Programme (MIDP) between 1995 and 2011. As a result of this support the motor vehicle exports increased from almost nothing in 1995 to 239 465.

Through the Clothing and Textiles Competitiveness Programme, government has stopped the employment decline in the sector and helped in the creation of more than 12 505 permanent jobs. Through government incentives more than 61 376 jobs have been and created more than 8180 new decent sustainable in companies which received government incentives.

Other amendments undertaken to strengthen worker rights and benefits include:

a) Amendment of the Unemployment Insurance Act No. 63 of 2001 to improve benefits.

b) Amendment of the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act, to develop a rehabilitation, re-integration and return-to-work policy for injured and diseased workers.

Socio-economic advances secured in the last five years

COSATU and the Alliance have identified the following concrete and tangible advances, including:

a) The completion of two new large dams (De Hoop in Limpopo, and Spring Grove in KZN) - adding the equivalent of a glass of fresh water for every inhabitant of sub-Saharan Africa;

b) Over 1 million households have been connected to electricity, adding to the 6 million households electrified between 1994 and 2009.

c) 1,693 megawatts new energy generation have been brought onto national grid, through major refurbishments of five power stations. This is the equivalent of a new Koeberg power station.

d) Buses that were being imported from Brazil for the BRT systems in Johannesburg and Cape Town are now being manufactured here;

e) The Rea Vaya Bus Rapid Transport System in Johannesburg has created 1159 permanent jobs and carries 42 000 passengers daily.

f) Half a million solar water heaters have been installed on rooftops - mainly for poor households, one of most ambitious programmes in the world. More than 315 000 have been installed from 2009 to 2013;

g) FET student enrolment has increased 90% - from 345,566 in 2010 - to 657,690 in 2012

On infrastructure and industrialisation we can proudly point to the following achievements:

a) Doubling of spending over the past five years and spending-levels much higher than at any point in the past 40 years. This administration is on course to have spent about R1 trillion by the 2014 election.

b) A boost in construction of physical infrastructure that has created jobs and helped to moderate the impact of global economic slowdowns on the domestic economy.

c) Completion of projects in water, energy, school-building, transport, health, ICT and other sectors that provide new economic and social infrastructure to our people

d) Implementation of the Industrial Policy Action Plan that has successes in the auto and clothing/textile industries among others;

e) Transnet is undertaking one of its largest capital spending programmes and Eskom has reignited its role in the building of large new power stations.

f) Development finance institutions have been active in both infrastructure and general investment areas. The IDC has financed localisation initiatives for buses, trains and energy components; the Small Enterprise Finance Agency is co-funding smaller entrepreneurs who are entering the infrastructure space.

It is because of these gains and advances that COSATU calls on all our members to defend our gains by mobilising for the decisive victory of the ANC on 7th May. We call on workers to take members of your families who qualify for voting to voting stations on that day to defend workers gains and to vote the ANC.

Commitments made by the 2014 ANC Manifesto for the workers

The 2014 manifesto commits the ANC government to do the following:

a) Strengthen the enforcement of the Employment Equity Act which requires that employers report unequal incomes in all wage levels and submit plans to reduce inequalities. This was openly opposed by the DA because it threatens white privileges

b) Ensure that collective bargaining takes place and is strengthened in all sectors of the economy.

c) Investigate feasibility of implementing a statutory national minimum wage, which builds on the decisions reached at the Alliance Summit, where there was an in-principle agreement on the national minimum wage.

d) Enforce legislation to eliminate abusive work practises in atypical work and labour broking and to improve the capacity of the Department of Labour to enforce this and all other labour laws. We will be working with government to ensure that this happen

e) Create decent work and sustainable livelihoods for inclusive growth.

f) Provide accessible, reliable and affordable public transport.

g) Allow space for further engagement on grey areas in the National Development Plan in line with the Alliance Summit decision to discuss concerns raised by the SACP and COSATU.

h) Strengthen support for co-operatives in marketing and supply activities to enable small-scale producers to enter formal value chains and take advantage of economies of scale and better access for small-scale producers' to municipal markets.

i) Expand the Food for All Programme as part of the national integrated food and nutrition policy for distributing affordable essential foodstuffs directly to poor communities.

j) Promote local procurement to increase domestic production and the creation of decent jobs by directing the state to progressively buy at least 75% of its goods and services from South African producers and support small enterprises, co-operatives and broad-based empowerment.

k) Ensure all South Africans have access to adequate and quality housing through programmes to provide a million housing opportunities for qualifying households over the next five years, and basic services and infrastructure in all informal settlements.

Tasks to be undertaken to ensure that these commitments and other Alliance Commitments and COSATU demands are integrated into government programmes

The main task which lies ahead is to ensure that we take forward the Alliance Summit resolutions which correspond with the manifesto commitments, build the Alliance's capacity to monitor and evaluate its decisions, and government programmes emanating from those decisions, and ensure that all the concerns we raised in the Alliance Summit are addressed and integrated into government programmes.

We have a responsibility to ensure that the common commitment to achieve radical economic transformation becomes a reality.

We must work to build the capacity of our own organisations to put forward real radical change in the conditions of our people and the creation of a powerful developmental state which intervenes decisively in strategic sectors of the economy.

We must develop programmes to ensure that cadres deployed in government are kept accountable to the Alliance and that where there is clear evidence of work not being done, or where there is open refusal to implement policy, the comrade is recalled and replaced.

We must work to put tangible proposals on what we mean by changing the ownership and control patterns of the South African economy which continues to reproduce colonial and capitalist domination and which has increasingly taken a foreign dimension such as Sasol's announcement that it will be investing some R200bn in Louisiana.

We shall continue to heighten our campaign which should include taking forward our 2015 Plan to assert working class hegemony inside the ANC and the Alliance. Whilst we appreciate that some work has been done on each of our demands, which are derived from the Freedom Charter and are in line with the ANC 52nd and 53rd Conference resolutions, we will need to work to ensure that they become part of government policy fully and not partially. These include the following:

On strategic nationalisation

Strategic nationalisation should meet three objectives:

a) Stimulate economic growth,

b) Determine the strategic direction of the economy and

c) Enlarge available resources.

One criterion for selecting industries or companies to be nationalised is that certain areas can be defined as "natural monopolies", which the apartheid state had started privatising. But this does not preclude the state from identifying other strategic industries and sectors through which it can influence the direction of the economy, in line with the framework of a genuinely new growth path which would direct us from a less extractive to a more productive and sustainable economy.

We propose the following sectors for strategic nationalisation: a) banking, b) petrochemicals, c) forestry, d) cement, e) metals fabrication (especially steel),

f) construction (to address infrastructure backlogs), g) pharmaceuticals, h) machinery and equipment, i) mining, and j) telecommunications.

On macroeconomic Policy

a) Government must develop a growth and development path framework document, to which all macro, micro, spatial and rural development policies must conform;

b) The Reserve Bank must abandon inflation-targeting and target economic growth and employment targets;

c) The SARB must intervene in the foreign exchange markets, or announce its intentions to do so;

d) A 100% state-owned Reserve Bank, independent from the undue influence of capital through its shareholders' participation in the bank's governance and policy making bodies;

e) Reinstatement of capital controls to prevent the asset stripping of South African industry

f) Progressive tax system, with an introduction of a tax category of the super rich;

g) Solidarity tax, to cap the growth of earnings of the top 10% and to accelerate the earnings of the bottom 10%;

h) Tax on both domestically produced and imported luxury items, but a higher tax on luxury items which are imported;

i) Increase in the secondary tax on companies to encourage re-investment, job-creation and to reduce the financialisation of company assets;

j) Imposition of a land tax to aid the process of land redistribution;

k) Zero-rating of basic foodstuffs, medicines, water, domestic electricity and public education;

l) Export taxes on strategic minerals, metals and other resources to support downstream industries and to promote value-addition;

m) Investment tax credits to encourage local procurement of machinery and equipment;

n) Tax on financial transactions including capital gains tax above a certain minimum threshold to limit short-term capital flows and to encourage productive investment, and speed bumps on term capital flows to discourage hot money;

o) Tax on firms that are stubborn in closing the wage gap.

On employment creation

We call for:

a) Expansion of the FET sector to accept 1 million learners per annum by 2014, compared to the current 400 000. This will reduce the youth labour force, by extending their stay in education and training, so that they acquire basic and high-level cognitive skills.

b) State-owned enterprises, agencies and departments to then absorb these young people into practical training and provide work experience, especially given the massive infrastructure backlogs. The private sector can do the same, without being given wage subsidies, but policies must be in place to support industrialisation and agriculture.

c) The state to have capacity to plan and forecast the numbers of young people who enter and exit the post-school system, and ensure that no- one falls through the cracks.

d) Phase out the use of tenders and directly absorb the unemployed in delivering basic services, building and maintaining infrastructure, and support local suppliers through targeted procurement and industrial linkages to increase the labour absorptive capacity of the economy.

e) Decisive state intervention to address inequalities and expand infrastructure and quality basic service provision and a change in patterns of ownership and control of the economy, as identified by the Freedom Charter, so that the resources that are embedded within the monopolies such as the mines, Sasol, Arcelor-Mittal, etc., are directed by the state to build domestic industries which would create real, productive jobs and train workers and young people in general to meaningfully participate in the social, political and economic development of our country.

On land reform

Land should be the heritage of all South Africans, owned by the democratic state and shared in use, not in ownership, among those who work it. We call for state ownership of all the land in this country, to empower the democratic state to break the power of white capital, strengthen its capacity to regulate land use and to abolish speculation. Once the state owns the land, it can then decide on a lease basis as to who should use it and for what purposes.

This is the best way in which the state can secure food security and reduce land under-utilisation.

Other interventions should include:

a) Increasing the target for black commercial use of land: 30% percent is a completely inadequate target for land redistribution given the population demographics. Even if it is impractical to expect the state to achieve a higher target by 2014, there should at least be a higher target in the longer term.

b) Dramatically increasing the funds allocated for land reform, to reform support programmes that can ensure the success and sustainability of land reform beneficiaries. The Comprehensive Agricultural Support Programme launched in 2004 is inadequate to meet these needs.

c) The Land bank must play an active role to support agricultural activities mostly for poor communities.

d) Using expropriation powers more aggressively: Government has announced the rethinking on the "willing buyer-willing seller" policy that has limited its options in the past. COSATU welcomes this move, although government does not seem to be prepared to use its expropriation powers aggressively, as resolved in the ANC 52nd Conference.

e) Pay more attention to the needs and interests of marginalised groups: Targets for the inclusion of women, youth and disabled people in land reform programmes are widely ignored. Communal tenure reform, in particular, must be implemented in a manner that protects the rights of women. We need to debate the impact of the Communal Land Rights Act, which is likely to worsen the position of women.

f) Halt the process by which the state relinquishes land in order to make up for land redistribution, whilst racial, gender and class concentration of ownership of land still persists.

g) Make available un-used state land to be productively used by co-operatives.

h) Deal with expropriation of unused or unproductive land, including land currently used for game-farming, golf-estates and land held for speculative purposes.

i) Abolish foreign ownership of land, and encourage productive, job-creating foreign investment in agriculture.

j) Ensure that the state expropriate land for the purposes of meeting basic needs, including laying down infrastructure and housing.

On the Labour Market

a) Ban labour brokers;

b) Enforce an upper limit of a 40-hour work week across the board;

c) Tax firms that pay below the statutory minimum wage, and the distribution of such tax proceeds back to the workers concerned;

d) Tax reform to target executive pay and to set targets to close the apartheid wage gap;

e) Set targets and timeframes to extend maternity leave and all other leave benefits to all workers;

f) Extend social protection and ensure that there is an income floor below which no South African worker or household should fall;

g) Set targets for the reduction of "low-wage" employment, through the introduction of solidarity measures in wage formation. This should be an integral part of realising our demand that the income gap between the highest paid and the lowest paid should be 16:1;

h) Link skills development and training with career-pathing as part of the employment equity.

On education

The provision of university education, though excessively dominant, remains weak in South Africa. The building of universities in Mpumalanga and Northern Cape should be speeded up, with definite timelines in place. There is also a need to consider the use of existing old Bantustan Offices that are idle, so as to increase schools and sites for existing universities. In addition, there should be biased focus in establishing new commerce, science, engineering and medical faculties in the new universities so as to support broad based industrialisation and social development.

We demand:

a) FETs must be linked to SETAs to ensure the allocation of funds to poor learners; scarce skills must be prioritised by FETs;

b) The teacher-learner ratio must be reduced to achieve quality learning and teaching;

c) The education infrastructure must be improved; mud schools must be eradicated and no teaching under trees;

d) The education budget must be increased so that it exceeds 20% of the budget or 6% of GDP;

e) Government must establish its own publishing company to eliminate corruption in the procurement of books;

f) There must be proper recognition of African languages in education to restore African dignity and African languages must also be used in science subjects;

g) Guidelines to strike a healthy balance between international students and local students in South African tertiary institutions;

h) Debate on the scaling down of private higher education providers and to end public subsidisation of private higher education institutions;

i) Formulate a benchmark for student fees to deal with the current differentiated scenario;

j) Design a mechanism to ensure that students in the scarce skills areas like medicine and engineering are funded through the public purse and are contracted to the country to halt the current tide of skills flight.

On health

We demand the integration of the following proposals in the implementation of the 10-Point Plan:

a) A heavy focus on HIV and AIDS, TB and silicosis;

b) Integrate community care workers into the public service;

c) Lead the process of training, particularly of nurses and doctors, and resist the incursion of the profit motive into the process;

d) Ensure that the Department of Health establishes a Nursing Directorate nationally and provincially to drive the implementation of the Nursing Strategy, co-ordinate and manage nursing services and to strengthen the South African Nursing Council to be an autonomous professional institute;

e) Increase the nurse/people ratio from 4 per 1000 people to 8 per 1000 and the ratio of physicians to 1 per 1000 people over the short to medium term from the current 0.69, which would require at least 200 000 additional nurses and at least 15 500 additional physicians. This excludes the need to build additional clinics and hospitals;

f) The National Health Insurance Fund must be a single payer and must be publicly administered. There must be no outsourcing of administration and no public/private partnerships in the delivery of health care in the public sector;

g) The NHI must be funded via general revenue, payroll-linked progressive contribution tax and contributions by employers. No additional levies must be made through VAT to fund the NHI;

h) There should be no further investigation of a multi payer system, as it is not going to lead to universal access to health insurance;

i) The creation of the NHI and the broader transformation of the health system in terms of the 10-point plan of government must be prioritised as one of the 5 priorities of the manifesto;

j) Treasury must release the discussion document on the funding of the NHI;

k) Government, in consultation with labour and other stakeholders, must develop the guidelines for monitoring and evaluation the pilots;

l) The state-owned pharmaceutical company must be 100% owned by the state.

Conclusion

The task does not end with the ANC wining elections. It goes beyond that to include building the capacity of our formations to drive development from below and re-impose the notion of a people-centred and people-driven development, away from one that is a bureaucratic-centred and ‘know-all' driven.

For this to happen we call on workers in every corner of this country to mobilise for the victory of the ANC and the same time build and strengthening COSATU structures for the tasks which lie ahead!

We know from our own experience that the demands that have today become law in this country were won a result of struggles waged inside the state and in the streets by activists in the movement. For us elections constitute another site of struggle which must be won under the banner of an ANC led Alliance.

Take the warning given by comrade Nelson Mandela when he said that "do not listen to people who talk the loudest, and think the least; they say one thing and mean another. Revolution is serious business."

The ANC has a proven track record of taking the revolution seriously. It is the ANC which liberated workers in this country when other parties were against the Labour Relations Act, etc. We recall the days when we marched side by side with comrade Mandela demanding the LRA and the removal of the lock-out clause.

We are again calling to workers and their families to vote ANC. Only the ANC has the interest of workers and the poor at heart. Only the ANC has a vision to continue changing our country away from the apartheid and colonial legacy. Only the ANC fought, in the face of hard opposition in parliament, for the advancement and protection of workers' rights.

Only the ANC has an unquestionable track record of being a reliable ally of workers since its inception in 1912. Whatever apartheid apologists have to say, it is a fact that the struggle for liberation in our country was led by the ANC and its alliance partners.

Some workers may feel that an ANC victory is inevitable, and so it may not be that important to vote. This would be a serious error. It could mean not only an ANC defeat, which would pose a serious threat to what workers have achieved, but lead to a coalition of anti-worker, anti-ANC parties committed to rolling back worker-friendly policies.

Therefore, it is absolutely important for workers that the ANC achieve a decisive and overwhelming mandate on the 7th May to take these policies forward.

No party other than the ANC will help advance your rights as a worker. A vote for the ANC should not be seen as a vote against your political party, but a vote for continued transformation of the workplace, advancement of worker rights and for the defence, consolidation and advancement of social transformation.

Your future is in your hands.

Do not destroy it!

Protect it!

Issued by COSATU Central Executive Committee, March 17 2014

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