The cabinet has dismissed claims that SA was "sliding towards dictatorship", as it moved to defend President Thabo Mbeki from increasingly strident criticism from his left-wing allies. Last week the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) warned against a "slide towards dictatorship" and the use of "state resources to settle political contradictions".
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