Johannesburg - Cosatu is calling for the investigation into state capture to be extended beyond the limited scope given to the Public Protector.
Cosatu general-secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali said it was troubling that despite the existence of many resolutions of ANC conferences and alliance summits on the economy, the country's macro-economic policies were dictated by finance monopoly capital. This represented the capture of the country's institutions by private interests.
“We need an investigation on the extent that government institutions have been captured seeing that many organs and functions of the South African state are outsourced to capital, including policy making and research as shown by the national minimum wage debate,” he told reporters in Johannesburg.
Politically, Cosatu also had a responsibility to reflect and debate on whether the ANC had the capacity, consciousness and commitment to use its access to the state to resist the power of monopoly capital and to catalyse radical socioeconomic transformation, Nthsalintshali said.
Cosatu's central executive committee held a three-day meeting this week.
Labour Bureau