Cde VC, my take is that things are going turn urgly from now on. And media frenzy will give COSATU a space to influence government to do an about-turn before Mangaung. I do not think the public and branches must be ignored in the whole as they may be feeding into the machinations within COSATU. I doubt if there is anyone in this forum who hold the view that COSATU deserved to be ignored. In a nutshell, we're together in this and change is inevitable. Remain, Morgan Phaahla
"Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology." - Joe Slovo --- On Fri, 3/9/12, Dominic Tweedie <[email protected]> wrote: From: Dominic Tweedie <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] COSATU protest ignored by Cabinet To: [email protected] Date: Friday, March 9, 2012, 1:35 AM At least the government is saying what it means, and meaning what it says. Whereas the machinations within COSATU have more to do with somebody's re-election campaign. Therefore it is no use for the government to stampede at this point. Things will look different six months from now. It may sound like arrogance. But the government has to stay on course in any case. It has to stay honest. If it does not do so, and if it instead starts running around whenever there is a loud noise, then you were going to find some other bad words to say about it. Whatever people say, the sun will rise. It will be a long time before we get a Chiluba-type government in SA. Maybe Chiluba will come before Jesus, or Jesus may come first, but whichever, it will be a long time from now. VC On 9 March 2012 08:09, <[email protected]> wrote: This is arrogance at its best!!! Sent from my BlackBerry® From: [email protected] Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 06:04:46 +0000 To: <[email protected]> ReplyTo: [email protected] Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] COSATU protest ignored by Cabinet Haaisuka it's these Ministers from Banks who are behaving like this.. The ANC of Mgoqi and Mfeketho was like that as well in the Council... Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! From: [email protected] Sender: [email protected] Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 03:22:20 +0000 To: <[email protected]> ReplyTo: [email protected] Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] COSATU protest ignored by Cabinet But on a serious note , I think government communications can be less aggressive and more sympathetic in their responses these days. You would swear that this is a government functioning in another world. Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! From: [email protected] Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 05:59:12 +0000 To: <[email protected]> ReplyTo: [email protected] Subject: Re: [YCLSA Discussion] COSATU protest ignored by Cabinet @ cabinet, There is no Permanent Struggle..Remember that someone once said "Revolutions are for the oppressed". The responses are arrogant. Chini COSATU didn't just wake up said let's march... Government wethu ngoku things unama solutions wonke... Fine... 2014... Siyaphela thina ngama Labour Brokers... Zuma is not employed by a Labour Broker...chini.. Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! From: VC <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 06:47:38 +0200 To: <[email protected]> ReplyTo: [email protected] Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] COSATU protest ignored by Cabinet Cabinet ignores Cosatu protest Donwald Pressly, Business Report, Johannesburg, 9 March 2012 The government has dug in its heels over the two issues that led to Wednesday’s national strike, vowing that it would not be swayed by the public protests against e-tolling in Gauteng and labour broking. In defiance of opposition from the ruling party’s own alliance partners, the cabinet was emphatic that labour broking would only be remodelled to exclude any abusive elements, while the tolls would begin as scheduled. As business settles down after the national strike called by Cosatu, which led to work stoppages in the major cities with swathes of Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban being cordoned off for hours, the Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane was emphatic that e-tolling would go ahead. The government would not waver from the scheduled April 30 imposition, he told a media briefing at Parliament. He was also emphatic about the government sticking to its guns on labour broking. He reminded journalists that President Jacob Zuma had made clear in his State of the Nation speech that abusive practices among labour brokers were being reviewed, but the practice of labour broking itself would not be outlawed. “If you look at the speech, the president didn’t say that the labour broking is an abusive practice. We need to look at abusive practices within the labour broking system,” Chabane said. His comments are in stark contrast to the public stance of ANC alliance partners Cosatu and the SACP. The most outspoken was the SACP’s general secretary, Blade Nzimande. In the SACP mouthpiece, Umsebenzi Online, Nzimande described labour broking as a “modern-day slavery practice”. “The SACP is in full solidarity with its alliance partner, Cosatu, and in full support of the workers’ struggle to end the abusive, modern-day practice of labour brokering,” the SACP leader said. “We say no to casualisation and forced temporary work.” Capitalist bosses, as he called local business leaders, were engaged in “a fierce class battle” to undermine democratic advances made by the government. “A major weapon that they have used has been labour brokering.” The stance is in stark contrast to that of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, who this week called for the relaxation of the labour regime. His view was backed by Planning Minister Trevor Manuel. Addressing the cabinet briefing, Labour Department chief director Tembinkosi Mkalipi said he believed that negotiating chamber Nedlac was near to finalising the labour bills and there was generally broad agreement among business, labour and the government. However, he did acknowledge that there was still disagreement over the “issue of labour brokers”. He added that the Nedlac parties had agreed that there were abusive practices committed “by most of the labour brokers in the sector” and that they “need to deal with this”. This reinforced Chabane’s position that the labour broking system would remain intact but be stripped of abusive elements. Meanwhile, Nzimande’s stance on e-tolling was equally outspoken. “The R20 billion Gauteng e-tolling project is yet another example of billions of rand being spent on the wrong priorities,” Umsebenzi reported. “The public transport that workers depend upon – minibuses, buses and Metrorail – is often inaccessible, unsafe, over-crowded and expensive. Our township roads are often pot-holed. Our rural roads and bridges become dangers when it rains.” Underscoring the weakness of the government, the SACP asked: “What has government done? Instead of focusing on infrastructure that is used by the working class and poor – the government has gone and spent R20bn on widening 180km in the wealthiest province of our country, on freeways that are used mainly by the rich in their private cars.” However, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi argued this week that many poor and working class people were forced to use cars because public transport was inaccessible or non-existent. A huge slice of the country’s poor would, indeed, be paying through their teeth to travel on the toll roads to work, he argued. From: http://www.iol.co.za/business/business-news/cabinet-ignores-cosatu-protest-1.1252540 -- 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] . -- 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. 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