The Enemy Of My Enemy

Farrel — Wed, 17 May 2006 11:10:00 -0500

Following the ruckus caused by striking security guards in the Cape Town CBD yesterday, the DA led local council has teamed up with the ANC led provincial government to withdraw permission for the planned COSATU led general strike tomorrow. The decision of the provincial government is a bit suprising considering the wide held assumption that the ANC would use every opportunity to make the DA led council look bad with it’s asking for payment from the union for damage. However when it comes to stomping down on COSATU and other unions (something the ANC seems to be doing quite a bit of lately) I guess the ANC can’t let the DA have all the fun.

I expect ther is a good chance COSATU will continue to march, last I heard COSATU is still deciding, but will do so under extremely heavy police presence and with COSATU marshalls everywhere to avoid the public relations snafu that was the march on Tuesday. That being said the chances of more violence are real and if you work in the CBD I hope you have in building parking.

Update: COSATU have called off their march in Cape Town. I suspect there might still be strikers arriving tomorrow who have not heard about this decision so the potential for violence is not zero.

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The Enemy Of My Enemy