The ANC’s week of recriminations and bad news continues. The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) has lashed out at both President Zuma and National Planning Commission (NPC) head and Minister of the President Trevor Manuel for alleged transgressions against the union movement, which is angry at not having the power it expected to have when Zuma took the reins from Thabo Mbeki and seems to be implying that it might shift its attentions toward the Congress of the People (COPE). This, of course, would precipitate the dissolution of the Tri-Partite alliance, something I have been predicting for years.
Meanwhile Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille is annoyed that Zuma supporters have indicated that Zuma is immune to prosecutions during his time in office. Now such prosecutions would be a disaster for South African governance, but thinking from the perspective of a minority party, this is exactly the sort of thing she is expected to be outraged about, even if it is “fakerage.”