The ANC Coalition stems from the alliance between the ANC, Cosatu and the Communist Party, otherwise known as the Tri-Partied Alliance during the Liberation Struggle against Apartheid up until the 1991 release of Nelson Mandela.
However, since then, the three partners have had many serious disagreements between themselves, as the ANC Heirarchy clings to total power and the wealth that that can accrue from being on the "Gravy Train": fast cars, million-Rand houses, luxury hotels and all expense paid trips overseas. Not just the mnumerous opportunities to enrich themselves through becoming shareholders in major companies and Black Empowerment Enterprises.
The problem that Cosatu has discovered is that the ANC no longer is paying significant attention to the plight of the average South African citizen anymore. Sure they (ANC) make all the campaign promises: free education; free houses; free water & electricity. But they have yet to deliver on any of these promises and in todays South African economy there are actually less people with jobs than during the Apartheid Era, as unemployment now stands in excess of 26% of the working-age population.
The conditions of employment have also gone down, as most employees find themselves working long hours (180 to 235 hours a month) for ridiculously low wages (R1500/month, minus deductions, ect...) and in conditions that are absulutely atrocious, even a violation of their human rights... Their employers do not care, as all they want to do is to satisfy the Affirmative Action requirements and then scrape off as mush profits as they can for themselves. This situation is absolutely dispicable, as this is not why Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in Prison, just so that all of the leaders (politicians and employers) can enrich themselves at the cost of the average South African citizen's rights to honest representation by accountable leaders in a government with entrenched transparency...
This stiuation is both deploraqble and reprehensible to the generally accepted international standards of political governance and, if the World's Media and Watchdog Organisations don't want to see South Africa also turning into another Zimbabwe, then they need to stand up and voice their protests against this inherant moral corruption that taints the so called "New" Post Apartheid South Africa!
Or there will be mobs in the streets protesting the gross inequalities between the egalitarian despots that are hoarding political power in South Africa and leaving the impoverished "currently disadvantaged" population to scratch in the gutter for survival, while they live in 5-star hotels and cover themselves in misappropriated funds and the proceeds of corruption (like blood diamonds, rhino horn smuggling, drug dealing, bribes, illegal stockholdings in private and public companies and para-statals!
Oops.. Sorry! That has already happened...
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