Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -----Original Message----- From: Shaheed Mahomed <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:34:29 To: <undisclosed-recipients> Subject: Fwd: On the rape of 4 casual workers and the DA policy on 'job creation'
On the 5th April 2011 four black casual workers were allegedly raped at gunpoint by the bosses of the AC Wendy carpentry factory in Blackheath (a suburb on the outskirts of Cape Town). The workers were allegedly insulted (including being given names of leading ANC and SACP members) and asked why they killed AWB leader Eugene Terreblanche. The DA is silent on this. According to the DA 2011 election manifesto their policy for Integrated Development Plans (such as the Blackheath corridor) is to 'take account of the needs of the private sector'. No mention of the needs of the workers at all, only of the private sector. In fact the DA places first emphasis on international companies and local capitalists to create jobs. Well, these same international and local capitalists were responsible over the past 3 years for the dismissal of over 1 million workers; even more, these same capitalists have been responsible for the rise of labour brokers and casual labour with the smashing of workers gains and massively increased levels of emploitation. We are reminded that at the first job summit, the proposal of the DA ( and its predecessors) was to reduce workers wages to R700 a month. We remember that the first alliance that brought the DA to govern the City Of Cape Town included the Freedom Front+, whose base idolizes the departed AWB leader Terreblanche. The opportunism of the DA knows no bounds. Now we know what the DA means by 'encouraging investors in order to create jobs'- they will keep silent at the mass economic (and physical) rape of the working class at the hands of the capitalists. Workers are not regarded as the productive backbone of the economy but as an 'indigent policy'. [Workers are told to be thankful to the baas for the few crumbs from the master's table]. Away with the DA and all capitalist parties! [this is the first of a series of exposures of the DA; we do not expect the mainstream media, least of all the voice of the DA, the Independent Newspapers group of papers, to cover these so we ask workers to take these into every factory , farm, every workplace and every area]; we are still waiting for the Cape Times to publish our exposure of the DA's allegations around the implications of the proposed employment equity amendments. -- Shaheed Mahomed WorkersInternational Vanguard League SA section of International Leninist Trotskyist Fraction. 1st Floor, Community House 41 Salt River rd Salt River South Africa 7925 ph 0822020617 ph [27] 21 4476777 fax 0865486048 [email protected] web www.workersinternational.org.za affiliated to the International Leninist Trotskyist Fraction integrated by Liga Trotskista Internacionalista , (LTI) de Bolivia Organizing Committee Sao Paulo, Brasil Partido Obrero Internactionaista- CI (POI-CI) , de Chile Liga Obrera Internacionalista- CI (LOI-CI) Argentina Liga Trotskista Internacionalista- (LTI)Peru Workers International Vanguard League (WIVL) South Africa (conditional member) Workers International League-FI Zimbabwe -- Shaheed Mahomed WorkersInternational Vanguard League SA section of International Leninist Trotskyist Fraction. 1st Floor, Community House 41 Salt River rd Salt River South Africa 7925 ph 0822020617 ph [27] 21 4476777 fax 0865486048 [email protected] web www.workersinternational.org.za affiliated to the International Leninist Trotskyist Fraction integrated by Liga Trotskista Internacionalista , (LTI) de Bolivia Organizing Committee Sao Paulo, Brasil Partido Obrero Internactionaista- CI (POI-CI) , de Chile Liga Obrera Internacionalista- CI (LOI-CI) Argentina Liga Trotskista Internacionalista- (LTI)Peru Workers International Vanguard League (WIVL) South Africa (conditional member) Workers International League-FI Zimbabwe -- 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] .
