By Tarryn Le Chat
01 October 2006
Cosatu - Western Cape - has declined to back the ANC’s bid to cut powers of Democratic Alliance mayor, Helen Zillle.
According to reports, Cosatu emerged yesterday from a two-hour closed-door discussion with a demand for an urgent alliance summit to discuss the issue in detail.
A move from existing the existing mayoral committee to an executive committee system would ensure the ANC and its metro ally, the Independent Democrats (ID), are represented on the city executive.
Cosatu’s provincial secretary Tony Ehrenreich said that after the discussion that the meeting did not endorse the ANC’s action and said they rather want to discuss that in the alliance meeting.
Ehrenreich expresses his concern, “We are concern that in the short term (the ANC) may get into the City of Cape Town, but you are really going to alienate yourself from the electorate in the Western Cape by such manoeuvres. Come the provincial election we (could) lose even more votes.”
About 500 Cosatu and civil society delegates attended the conference.
The media was barred from the discussion as most of the affiliates present felt that alliance matters should not be discussed in public.
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