The trade union Solidarity has announced the ten-point agenda that it wishes to discuss and negotiate with the new Zuma team.
In a statement on Sunday, it said that points on the agenda included crime prevention, skills shortages and the exemption of young people from affirmative action, as well as community empowerment, worker empowerment, name changes, racial discrimination in the awarding of social subsidies, remigration, mother tongue education and the effect of poor mathematics and science marks on the economy.
"We believe in bargaining with the ANC and government, in the same way that bargaining takes place between employers and trade unions.
"Bargaining with the ANC is crucial, since the ANC is the centre of power and the source of government policy. Solidarity also wants to involve Afrikaans organisations in order to negotiate a joint agenda with the ANC," the trade union said.
The new Zuma team understood collective bargaining as well as Solidarity did.
Both the new secretary-general, Gwede Mantashe, and the new ANC deputy president, Kgalema Motlanthe, held the position of general secretary in South Africa's largest trade union, the National Union of Mineworkers, Solidarity said.
"Solidarity has a long-standing relationship with the NUM in industries like mining and Eskom. NUM will not be taken aback if we produce mandates from our people - on the contrary, it would understand, as it will understand that bargaining may entail tension, co-operation, pressure and protest," the union said.
Solidarity said that the new Zuma team had indicated that it was "prepared to talk."
"We held discussions with Kgalema Motlanthe about three months ago and agreed in principle on an ANC/Solidarity working group on affirmative action. We have already held discussion with Mr Zuma - through the offices of our civil rights initiative, AfriForum - and we hope to resume these discussions early 2008."
Solidarity said that it had invited Zuma to accompany the Solidarity Helping Hand Fund on a visit to white squatter camps.
"We have an open relationship with Gwede Mantashe and share his concerns about the skills crisis in our country. We foresee a fruitful relationship with the new Zuma team, which is a prerequisite for tough bargaining."
The main point on Solidarity's Zuma agenda is crime prevention.
"We expect of government to do more about crime. We want to talk to the Zuma team about ways in which positive remarks that have been made by Mr Zuma on the issue of crime prevention may be put into practice. We have already instructed AfriForum to draw up a crime agenda," Solidarity said.
Solidarity furthermore wanted to discuss how the skills crisis in SA could be alleviated.
"We intend to offer the model on which our training company, Sol-Tech, is based as an example of what can be done to resolve the skills problem."
The union said it also wanted racial discrimination in the payment of social grants to cease.
Solidarity's Helping Hand Fund intended to provide the Zuma team with information regarding new Afrikaans poverty.
On the issue of affirmative action, it was Solidarity's intention to bargain for the exemption of young people who first went to school in 1994 and beyond.
" We will strongly emphasise broader empowerment and will exert pressure to promote non-racial employee empowerment programmes. We also plan to submit proposals for the transformation of local communities into local economies," Solidarity said.
A number of proposals would also be made regarding education, in particular the decline of Afrikaans schools and the negative effects of non-mother tongue education and the country's poor showing in science and mathematics - as well as the effect of this on the economy.
Solidarity's agenda would also include the effects of emigration and more support would be asked for Solidarity's Come Home Campaign, which has already helped more than 3 000 expatriates to return to South Africa.
Solidarity's research department would join forces with several experts to prepare papers on each of the points on the Zuma agenda.
"We do not expect to deal with the entire agenda in a single workshop, but will commence with a few priority issues. The agenda itself will cover a five-year period, during which a combination of discussions, pressure, protest and good research will be put to use in bargaining with the Zuma team," Solidarity said. - Sapa