Viva UFasimba!!! The withdrawal of the Democratic Alliance and COPE from participating in the parliamentary hearings on labour brokers, is nothing else but a show of consensus among a surrogate capitalist class to advance narrow interests. Both DA and COPE knew that it will be impossible to defeat the ANC in a public process, given that members of the public support the ANC in objection of the practice of labour brokering. In fact, attempts were made by the labour movement to pinpoint salient issues in order to challenge the self-serving view espoused by those who seek labour brokers to regulate themselves rather than addressing the exploitation that resulted from this practice. It's therefore conspicuous of DA and COPE to withdraw from the proceedings without presenting arguments for labour brokering. Clearly, this new alliance of a surrogate capitalist class want to reverse democratic gains achieved since 1994 and thwart further efforts to realise the policies of Polokwane. We cannot allow labour brokers to be employers without employment in the same way the 1996 class project created capitalists without capital. It's without doubt that most labour brokers are historically white and only a small chunk is owned by black people with debt equity arranged through BEE shares - let alone that beneficiaries is a very small, politically-connected elite aligned with COPE. That is why there is a marriage of convenience between DA and COPE to defend labour brokers at the direct expense of the workers and the poor. It's well-known that DA represents a white capital while COPE is indebted on the patronage of established white capital for its survival. I not understand why anyone believes these lackeys will deliver a "new agenda for change and hope for all" when they cannot even appreciate sham practices associated with labour brokering in the context of taking forward the decent work agenda. Abolish labour brokers to expose these fellow travellers who did not join the struggle to be poor but to amass wealth for their own self-benefit! Remain Morgan Phaahla Ekurhuleni
"Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology." - Joe Slovo --- On Fri, 10/9/09, Gugu Ndima <[email protected]> wrote: From: Gugu Ndima <[email protected]> Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] The YCLSA calls upon the newly weds”COPE&DA” to accept the fate of Labour brokers To: [email protected] Date: Friday, October 9, 2009, 3:19 AM The YCLSA calls upon the newly weds”COPE&DA” to accept the fate of Labour brokers 08 0ctober 2009 The Young communist league of South Africa (UFasimba) has observed with contempt the tendencies, the reactionary marriage between COPE and DA on the issue of Labour brokers. Since the matter of Labour brokers has been brought to the public platform for debate, they have attempted in all possible ways to undermine the call of the majority to ban them. The Young communist league urges them to refrain from utilising nonsensical tactics in order to ensure that the public deviates from the crux of the matter. The process has been respected by all stakeholders and no one can undermine the tensions that have been created as a result of the existence of this perverse practise that seeks to undermine decent employment. The DA and COPE brigade further wanted to make a simplistic anaylysis of how Labour brokers can regulate themselves. This will just affirm Labour brokers in society and would be a continuation of what they are currently doing, which is in actual fact self-regulation. The DA and COPE must just accept the fate of the whole practise and respect the views of the majority which are the poor and the working class in this instance. We reiterate our call that Labour brokers must be BANNED! Issued by the YCLSA Head office contact Gugu Ndima (076 783 1516) National spokesperson -- Gugu Ndima +27 76 783 1516 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
