There is no smoke without fire. It is our very comrades who feed Mail & Guardian and the media with these stories.
The media is only 'progressive' when they reflect positively about us when they reflect positively about us </div> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -----Original Message----- From: VC <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:29:46 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] Mail and Guardian - Big lies 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* -- 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. 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] .
