*TELKOM IS A PEOPLE’S ENTIRY, NOT A POLITICAL APPENDAGE FOR PATRONAGE AND SPLURGE.*
* * *18 March 2011 * The Communications Workers Union (CWU) is worried and concerned at the continued elitist approach by the government in the recent appointment of the Telkom CEO and the Chairperson of the Telkom Board. We are worried that government continues to ignore the federation and its affiliates in taking decisions that affect the wellbeing of workers and the citizens. It should remain an important lesson that the appointment of leaders in key state parastatals without due consultations with the stakeholders involved will always create a paralysis in the much expected progress that must be made by these entities. A classical example is the case of the SABC, the lesser talked about the better. We however acknowledge the skills and experience that the newly appointed CEO possesses and we anticipate a turn-around of the entity’s performance. Her strong ICT background, experience, managerial and leadership capacity give us confidence that she will stabilize the organization and uproot the current perceived cancer that is devouring the entity in the form of corruption, nepotism, fraud, etc. We further urge her to deal with the current dossiers that are gathering dust on the desks of the company. We also note that the currently launched *8.ta* has not been doing well at all except helping to plunder the tax payer’s money in the form of exorbitant advertising and branding antics in all media channels. We encourage the CEO to take a bold step in order to deal with that hopeless project doomed for fail. It is her prerogative to act in the interests of the shareholder (who in this case are the citizens through government) to save Telkom from further going down the drain. This will further save destitute workers who are slaughtered by retrenchments and the politically insensitive, head in the sand Voluntarily Severance Packages. As CWU we are also aware that the currently splurging *8.ta* is rather sustaining the political interests of certain individuals who are currently involved in factional tendencies within the ANC, the alliance in general and the ANCYL in particular. These individuals are hell bent to destroy the historical values of our congress democratic movement of selflessness and personal ambition sacrifices by introducing tactics such as “tenderpreneurship” for a quick buck in order to pledge patronage to the poverty stricken young activists in our structures for factional battles in the leadership of our movement. *Contact:* * * *Matankana Mothapo, National Spokesperson - 0827590900*** -- 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] .
