Trevor Manuel And COSATU Differ On GEAR, RDP

Farrel — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:48:00 -0500

I might have spoken a bit too soon when I said in a previous entry that Trevor Manuel has been keeping his head low in the intra-tripartite alliance fighting that has erupted over the past few months. In an article initially released on the ANC Today newsletter (and then taken off their website) and published in the Sunday Times, Manuel commits the ANC to carrying out the aims of GEAR, goverments policy for economic growth using business, and balancing it with the RDP and implies that the other members of the tripartite alliance agree with it.

COSATU disagrees and claim that GEAR was basically forced upon them and they would be much happier if the more ‘revolutionary programme’ of the RDP was the sole manner for government to address the country’s ills. Manuel seems to hope that GEAR, along with the Accelerated Shared Growth Initiative headed by Deputy Preisdet Mlambo Ngcuka, will grow the economy pass the 6% and actually help to fund the aims of the RDP.

Politics.za: Trevor Manuel And COSATU Differ On GEAR, RDP

Trevor Manuel And COSATU Differ On GEAR, RDP