The 2022 May Day celebration will go down in history as one that requires a consequential departure from patronage by worker unions.
The brute logic is that if there is an allegation of corruption being rife in the government, it follows that it can only be those that work in government that are corrupters.
Relentless pursuit of this anti-corruption posture independent of a social justice-based transformation programme has now shaped the governing alliance renewal and rebuilding programme to be tradable with how anti-corruption is supported.
Cosatu should be launching a programme to create private sector growth. It should be galvanising for the resuscitation of state-owned entities at commanding heights of the economy. The sheer number of jobs lost in Prasa and Transnet is enough for a campaign.