ANC supporters at the January 8th Statement at Moruleng Stadium in Rustenburg, North West on 10 January 2026. Picture: Gallo Images/Sharon Seretlo The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) says the ANC must not forget the unemployed amid the party’s January 8 birthday celebrations. Cosatu president Zingiswa Losi told ANC supporters at the Moruleng stadium in North West that South Africans are desperate for employment.
“The reality is that unemployment still steals the future of our children. Poverty still humiliates working families. “The people of this country did not struggle for freedom without dignity, the people of this country did not vote for democracy without jobs.
“The people of this country did not build the African National Congress so that inequality could remain unchanged.” Losi warned that the tripartite alliance — between Cosatu, ANC and the South African Communist Party (SACP) — is not a partnership of convenience, saying it should produce tangible results that improve the lives of South Africans. “We are an alliance that must be accountable to the working class and this alliance, we took decades to build it. “But indeed, it can be weakened by divisions by arrogance by forgetting whom we are serving as an alliance.
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“Comrades, workers will not forgive failure, the people that are unemployed will not accept excuses, and women in this country will not tolerate insecurity. “The young people of our country will not wait forever,” she said.
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