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The fact that such policies are being implemented all over. Manual De Enfermagem Em Uti Neonatal. We shall fight against. The only realistic alternative for workers to put. In South Africa that means going back to the Reconstruction. Development Programme RDP and implementing it vigorously to redress. We demand of our partners in government that they start. Tripartite Alliance seriously. They must stop unilaterally. COSATU. We are insisting that the Alliance use its structures. COSATU, in these structures will be demanding an end to unilateral imposition. RDP principles the saving and creation of. This issue is a special pre Congress edition. It contains some of the main points from documents being presented to. Congress, which expand and explain the federations achievements over. They are. The Secretariat Report of the last three. The Financial Report. First term report of the Parliamentary. Office Accelerating Transformation. Discussion Document Social Transformation. Era of Globalisation. Document on Job Creation Labour. Document on Trade Unions and the. Informal Sector. Document on Gender Policy. Resolutions from Affiliates. These documents together fill over 5. Shopsteward cannot begin cover all the material contained. But we hope there will be enough ammunition in these pages to. Secretariat Report Three years hard work. COSATUs Secretariat report to Congress COSATU has done so much since its last National Congress in 1. Congress in 1. 99. Secretariat Report to the. National Congress is inevitably very long. It covers the political background. COSATUs work with other organisations. COSATU and its affiliates. We only have. room here for just a summary of a few of its sections. Political background to the Congress. The last three years saw intense contestation between the. National Democratic Revolution NDR. As the national question is being addressed, class is increasingly. South Africa. In the final analysis, understanding the nature of oppression. By itself, racial prejudice. The workers continued to score important victories after. Sixth National Congress. The labour laws piloted by the democratic movement. On the social front, workers and their. Millions of people who historically. This has enormous. But still. in economic and social terms, the legacy of apartheid remains entrenched. The structure of capital has not been fundamentally changed. To this day, Anglo American controls over half of the assets on the Johannesburg. Stock Exchange, while four banks own most of the financial sector. Black economic empowerment has failed to dent South Africas. Instead. it has been limited to advancing a minority of well connected black individuals. The loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs in mining, agriculture. Class stratification appears in increasingly deep but less. The difference between. Poverty and unemployment are concentrated among Africans, women and. The NDR must address these inequalities through various strategies. It is not about enfranchising a new elite that uses. To alter South African society radically requires. The adoption of conservative economic policies in 1. The Growth, Employment and Redistribution GEAR strategy has failed. Comparing its targets with actual outcomes since 1. GEAR demanded in cutting deficits and. Meanwhile, growth was substantially lower than predicted, interest. Where GEAR predicted substantial increases in formal employment. Many gains scored since 1. Politically, the adoption of GEAR marked a turn to the centre right. It has increasingly set the budget deficit as the primary objective, displacing. NDR. It signalled a shift from the state led. Reconstruction and Development Programme RDP to. For COSATU the NDR is far from over. The 1. 99. 4 breakthrough. It placed the ANC in power, not as an end in itself, but as a means to use. The NDR represents the most direct route to socialism. For. COSATU and the SACP, socialism is not just a vision or an ideal located in. Within the current situation. How well is the Tripartite. Alliance workingThe Tripartite Alliance between the ANC, COSATU and the SACP collectively. South African population. It is. an alliance with a history of struggle and rooted in the people. Prior to the 1. 99. Alliance adopted the RDP. South African society. It had wide support. Business and the former ruling. The ascendance of the ANC to power meant a qualitative shift. Alliance. Whereas under apartheid, the partners struggled. Alliance has. failed to give expression to this close working relationship. Apart from deploying cadres to strengthen Parliament and. Executive at all levels of government, we have not clarified how the Alliance. In theory, the entire Alliance should be in power. In the new conditions, the Alliance has failed to function. RDP or the manifesto. This. vacuum has resulted in policy largely being driven by bureaucrats and technocrats. ANC. By no stretch of the imagination can the Alliance be described. The loss of the strategic initiative. When confronted by difficult questions, the Alliance has. As a result, it has papered over cracks around serious disagreements. Only during elections are there cohesion and. The Alliance summits serve a symbolic role, and agreements. This situation is compounded by rumour mongering, a tendency to question each. Alliance to. ensure government policy adheres to agreements. In the last three years a number of Alliance summits were. The summit held from 3. August to 1 September 1. These decisions were reaffirmed in the Alliance summit in. October 1. 99. 8, which explicitly stated that no macro economic policy is set. This summit created hopes of a new post GEAR consensus. In 1. 99. 9, no summit was held and one was unceremoniously cancelled. Disappointingly no summit has yet been convened in 2. While this report. ANC. In all these engagements with the Alliance, COSATU submitted. In practice, these. The agreements reached have. These circumstances led to the argument in COSATUs Congress. Alliance and government. Government takes decisions without effective Alliance. Comrades in government expect the Alliance partners to understand. This reduces the. Alliance to a rubber stamp, a source of many tensions within the Alliance. The political discussion document adopted by COSATU in 1. Alliance should develop a programme that can present a hegemonic. In. the absence of this kind of programme, there is no clear power base for government. Regrettably some in government have expressed great reservations. COSATU approach. They like the Alliance, but in their view demanding. They see this as a demand for dual power and co determination, which. The Alliance is confronted by a stark choice. Either there. must be a qualitative shift in its operations, which involves it in meaningful. The latter route. But to avoid it, the Alliance must begin to operate in a. It cannot be held together by historic sentiment alone. In. sum, we have a historic duty to fight to save the Alliance from extinction. The role of COSATU Motive force for revolution Particularly in the wake of the 1. It is said that because workers have jobs, they. Workers demands for a living wage and. A variant of this argument holds that COSATU and its affiliates. Increasingly we see the. Marxist rhetoric to mask a neo liberal agenda that is defined as. This is tantamount to delivering the working class. These arguments are devoid of any substance and deflect attention. To call workers a labour aristocracy moves attention from. The top 1. 0 of households in South. Africa control over 4. In contrast, the next 4. Most workers fall into the category of working. Nonetheless, they effectively form the main social security net for.