Cosatu: Factionalism dulls ANCWL's perception of reality
Trade union federation Cosatu says the ANC Women's League is "abnormally unreflective".
It comes after the league criticised Cosatu for calling on social development minister Bathabile Dlamini to resign amid the social grant crisis.
"In a strong field this is their most ridiculous statement so far, and for an organisation that claims to represent people, who will be mostly affected by the Department of Social Development and Sassa's bungling, they have proved to be abnormally unreflective," Cosatu says in a statement.
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It says the ANCWL has reached the pinnacle of audacity in scribbling together and dishing up the most fanatical mystifying nonsense.
"We admire their capacity to offer full-throated defence for bureaucratic arrogance and bungling, indifference, and flat-out incompetence."
Cosatu says it's perplexing that the Women's League is not angered or concerned about the possibility that 17 million of South Africa's poorest may not receive their social grants on 1 April.
"These are amongst the most vulnerable groups of South Africans, and they include the elderly, the disabled as well as children below the age of 18. Research has proved that most of the social grants are spent on food, meaning that a disruption to this social security system could be catastrophic and ultimately life threatening."
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Dlamini was previously accused by senior Sassa managers of meddling in an attempt to control R300-million worth of food parcel tenders.
Cosatu says it strongly believes leaders need to be elected and then held in healthy contempt and not worshipped.
"If some of these embarrassing things are not fixed by the movement, there will be no deployments in 2019 that the league seems obsessed about."