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Article: We are not the ANC's lapdog--Cosatu: South Africa's government, writes Tom Nevin, is facing its biggest ever political crisis as one member of the ruling tripartite alliance, the labour movement Cosatu, is threatening to break away.(SOUTH AFRICA)(African National Congress, Confederation of South African Trade Unions, South African Communist Party)
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- January 1, 2005
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The South African government is facing the biggest political crisis in its decade-long rule, as pressure mounts on its rapidly unravelling coalition partnership. Mounting discontent by the alliance's labour component at what it regards as its "marginalisation" by the ANC is threatening to tear the partnership apart and reinvent South Africa's economic and political landscape in the process.
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In 1994, the African National Congress (ANC), the Confederation of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the SA Communist Party (SACP) entered into an alliance to contest the country's first democratic elections. Energised by the defeat of ...
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