Because you probably won't read something like this in the pages of the Guardian: Relayed from Umsebenzi Online on the victory of Jacob Zuma and the ANC Blade Nzimande, General Secretary The overwhelming victory of the ANC in the April 2009 fourth democratic elections is the clearest statement by the workers and the poor of our country of their continued confidence in, and expectations from, the ANC-led government. Indeed the May Day 2009 COSATU rallies became both the rallying point for intensify working class struggles especially in the wake of the current global capitalist crisis, as well as a platform to celebrate the electoral victory of the ANC. The significance and some lessons from the elections The ANC electoral victory underlines other important things: It is a continuation and consolidation of the democratic advances made at the Polokwane conference, and an affirmation of the popularity of the key decisions taken at that historic conference by the overwhelming majo
Left wing commentary from the heart and the head