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Cape Town - There is little prospect of the SA Communist Party (SACP) forming an alliance with the Free Market Foundation (FMF) although the two groups seem to share the view about low pay is better than no pay, says Terry Bell in this week’s Labour Wrap. He points out that SACP general secretary and higher education minister, Blade Nzimande, made this argument in support of new agriculture minister Senzeni Zokwana.
Zokwana, the immediate past president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is also chairperson of the SACP. It was revealed in the City Press last Sunday that he illegally paid his cattle herder R800 a month. This, said Nzimande, was because Zokwana was “a poor mine worker”. It was better that the worker received something rather than nothing, a variation, says Bell, of the FMF’s “half a loaf is better than none”.
The wrap also hails the fact that a stream of comments, queries and criticisms have flooded in the the Q & A platform, making it a “two-way street” promoting discussion and debate “from which we can all, hopefully, learn”.
Bell's Inside Labour column tomorrow will question why there are so many allegations and denials about financial impropriety when “the books should be open”. It will also argue that there is a fundamental — and largely ignored - reason for the ongoing global economic crisis.
Watch:
- Fin24
Do you have questions for Terry or anything labour-related you'd like him to cover in his next labour wrap? Drop us an email.
* Terry Bell is an independent political, economic and labour analyst. Views expressed are his own. Follow him on twitter @telbelsa.
Zokwana, the immediate past president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is also chairperson of the SACP. It was revealed in the City Press last Sunday that he illegally paid his cattle herder R800 a month. This, said Nzimande, was because Zokwana was “a poor mine worker”. It was better that the worker received something rather than nothing, a variation, says Bell, of the FMF’s “half a loaf is better than none”.
The wrap also hails the fact that a stream of comments, queries and criticisms have flooded in the the Q & A platform, making it a “two-way street” promoting discussion and debate “from which we can all, hopefully, learn”.
Bell's Inside Labour column tomorrow will question why there are so many allegations and denials about financial impropriety when “the books should be open”. It will also argue that there is a fundamental — and largely ignored - reason for the ongoing global economic crisis.
Watch:
- Fin24
Do you have questions for Terry or anything labour-related you'd like him to cover in his next labour wrap? Drop us an email.
* Terry Bell is an independent political, economic and labour analyst. Views expressed are his own. Follow him on twitter @telbelsa.
