South Africa: Nzimande, Vavi rail against inequities at Sactwu congress

Blade Nzimande, the secretary-general of the SA Communist Party (SACP), told the ninth congress of the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (Sactwu) that the black economic empowerment (BEE) was not empowering workers, but enriching the few. In the midst of increasing working-class struggles over casualisation of the workforce, outsourcing and the continuing jobless bloodbath, he encouraged an audit of BEE in order to ensure that it was in fact creating more jobs, the fundamental criterion of black empowerment.