Having helped catapult Jacob Zuma into the presidency, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the country's biggest trade union federation, is flexing its muscles. Zwelinzima Vavi, the secretary-general, has declared that the country's policies are determined not by the government alone, but by the ruling tripartite alliance, which includes cosatu along with the African National Congress (ANC) and the Communist Party. "We are the policymakers," he said on June 4th, "and the government implements. The government doesn't lead any more."
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