The ANC and Cosatu

Further to Richard's post which I linked here, see now the report by Christopher Munnion from Johannesburg:

President Thabo Mbeki's "quiet diplomacy" towards Zimbabwe is threatening to cause a split between South Africa's ruling African National Congress and the alliance which helped it to power.

The Congress of South African Trade Unions, or Cosatu, and the South African Communist Party, both powerful and influential among the black working class in the country and the government, have become increasingly critical of what they regard as Mr Mbeki's "ineffectual and even obsequious" relationship with President Robert Mugabe.

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