There is an article in today's Mail and Guardian that is headed:
"Gunning for Vavi: Zuma's allies in Cosatu want him out"
It's full of lies.
I don't like repeating lies, so I will not post the article.
One of the lies in the article is that "South African Municipal Workers'
Union general secretary Mthandeki Nhlapo" is a "supporter" of Vavi.
The General Secretary of SAMWU is not Mthandeki Nhlapo. CU subscribers
know that the GS of SAMWU is Walter Theledi. Why don't the Mail and
Guardian reporters know it?
Another lie is that "SACP leaders also lobbied to have Vavi's allies
removed, such as Cosatu's Gauteng chairperson, Phutas Tseki".
Actually, Cde Phutas is a member of the SACP Gauteng Provincial
Executive Committee, along with myself among others.
Photographs appeared in newspapers of our PS Cde Jacob Mamabolo and
Gauteng ANC leader Nomvula Mokonyane celebrating with Cde Phutas at the
COSATU Gauteng Congress a couple of weeks ago after Phutas was
re-elected. It seems that the Mail and Guardian staff does not read
newspapers.
The whole article is a lie. If the reporters had read yesterday's "New
Age" article headlined "Retain Cosatu leadership", also posted on the
CU, they would have seen that:
*"Newly-elected SA Communist Party (SACP) chairperson Senzeni
Zokwana openly campaigned for Cosatu's leadership to be retained
when the labour federation holds its national congress in
Johannesburg next month."*
The response of the treacherous, oppositionist mass media of our country
has been to mount a "big lie" campaign, in the hope that the biggest
possible lie, like the biggest snowball, will take longer than smaller
lies to melt away. In the face of manifest unity, the mass media pretend
to see disunity.
*VC*
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