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Malema seeks Union Alliance to combat ANC Amogelang Mbatha, Biznews.com, Johannesburg, 22 January 2015 The Economic Freedom Fighters, South Africa's second-largest opposition party, is seeking to join forces with the nation's biggest labor union to take on the ruling African National Congress in next year's municipal vote. The EFF sees a similarity in political ideology with the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, the party's leader, Julius Malema, said in an interview on Wednesday at his party's headquarters in Johannesburg. No formal talks have been held yet, he said. Numsa, which has 350,000 members, has broken ranks with the labor allies of the ANC and has said it may create a political party of its own. "If we are divided and don't have a coherent program, we'll never emerge against this powerful establishment called capitalism," Malema, 33, said, dressed in a checked jacket and seated on a red couch, the dominant color of his party's logo. "It's important that the left-forces consolidate and confront this monster." The ANC, which took power after the end of apartheid in 1994 and is struggling to create jobs in an economy with a 25 percent unemployment rate, will probably lose control in at least four municipalities in next year's election including the nation's biggest city, Johannesburg, and its capital, Pretoria, Malema said. The EFF is concentrating its election campaign in Gauteng, the nation's richest province that includes the commercial hub of Johannesburg as well as the Ekurhuleni and Tshwane municipalities. 'Reluctant Girl' So far its overtures to Numsa have made little progress. "We have been reaching out to Numsa and trying to show them that we're interested," he said. "They have been a very reluctant girl in this process." From: http://www.biznews.com/briefs/2015/01/22/malema-seeks-union-alliance-combat- anc/ -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
