COSATU / ANC Bilateral 17- 07 - 06

ANC/COSATU Bilateral

The African National Congress and the Congress of South African Trade Unions held a bilateral meeting on Monday 17 July 2006. There was a comradely and frank discussion of issues of mutual concern.

The meeting agreed that there should be more labour representatives on the board of JIPSA, that land distribution needs to be speeded up, and that there should be better coordination of the intervention in the WTO negotiations.

Other issues which were discussed were referred for urgent consideration by the secretariats of the two organisations. They will bring them back for further discussion at a bilateral meeting in August at which the two organisations will try to reach agreement, and they will be debated at a political school. These issues include the progress of the National Democratic Revolution and the motive forces behind it, the nature of a developmental state, the economy, the role of the ANC and its relations with the state and its alliance partners, the nature, content and quality of engagements within the alliance and the next stage of the Jobs and Poverty Campaign.