23 July 2015 SADTU General Secretary elected EI Vice President SADTU wishes to congratulate its General Secretary Cde Mugwena Maluleke for being unanimously elected as the Vice President for Education International during its 7th World Congress in Ottawa, Canada. EI is a global teachers and education workers' union federation representing over 30 million teachers and education workers from 172 countries with 401 union members. The unanimous election of our General Secretary is an indication of the confidence that teachers around the world have not only in his leadership as an individual but in SADTU as an organisation. This is recognition of our hard work and dedication towards quality public education here at home and abroad. This international milestone flies in the face of the prophets of doom who have been at pains to suggest that SADTU is now a shadow of its former self particularly under its current leadership. Notably, some of these prophets are expelled former leaders of SADTU who have been hard at work to establish an alternative union from within our own ranks. We want to advise them that it actually takes hard work, dedication and selflessness to build a reputable organisation that can be recognized the world over and not just a burning desire to be in a leadership position and to use that to live an affluent life style. We are confident that our General Secretary will succeed in his new role and will continue to act as the unifying glue for teachers across the world. With him being part of the leadership collective, we expect Education International to wage a relentless war against the emerging scourge of privatization of education around the world amongst others. We expect EI to continue to fight for quality public education for all through the improvement of the conditions of service of teachers and increased public spending on education. As SADTU we will continue to play our role and provide EI with the maximum support that it requires to implement its resolutions. Workers of the world unite for you have nothing but shackles to free yourselves from! Issued by: SADTU Secretariat Contact: Nomusa Cembi, Media Officer, 082 719 5157 -- -- NEW!!!! SSN FORUM IS ON FACEBOOK!!!! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Swaziland Solidarity Network Forum Google Group. Visit the group home page at http://groups.google.com/group/sa-swaziland-solidarity-eom-forum for more options, pages and files. To post to the group, send email to [email protected] or reply to this message. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Swaziland Solidarity Network Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
