The National Minimum Wage has not only created an environment leading to mass retrenchments, but it has pulled the handbrake on job creation. While the DA-led governments in the Western Cape, Cape Town, Johannesburg and Tshwane continue to create hundreds of thousands of jobs, unemployment remains at an almost 15-year high. Once again, the tail, Cosatu is wagging the dog, the ANC. The ANC's election promise rings as hollow as this one,