South Africa: Public spat between ANC and Cosatu

The recent aspersions cast on prominent leaders of our movement like Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi reveal the inability of our movement to accept criticism and constructively engage with dissenting views, writes Cosatu's Tony Ehrenreich. "In many respects it is enlightening that differences within the tripartite alliance are made public, because it is in this way that the many members of the alliance are able to evaluate for themselves what lies behind the disfunctioning of the alliance."