Numsa gets thumbs up for workers’ party
The
National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has been given the
go-ahead to register a workers’ party for next year’s elections.
The electoral commission dismissed Numsa's first attempts to register the party in July.
Numsa's Phakamile Hlubi-Majola says the union decided in 2013 to start a party aimed at the working class.
"The purpose of the workers’ party is that it is supposed to promote the goals of workers and their families. It is a party that will focus only on what the working class and the kind of society that will benefit the majority who are workers.”
Hlubi-Majola says the current batch of political parties do not serve the interests of the working class.
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"These are parties that have created to promote the current and economic - particularly economic -structure that is in place. An economy that is based on capitalism and in some form of another all the South African political parties promote this ideology.”
Hlubi-Majola says their party will allow the working class to lead the economy and determine the country’s destiny.
She says contesting next year’s elections is not a priority.