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Vavi faces motion of no confidence from COSATU Nce Mkhize, Business Day, Johannesburg, 27 March 2015 The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in KwaZulu-Natal has called for a motion of no confidence in General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi, Provincial Secretary Edwin Mkhize said on Thursday. This comes at a time when there is no let-up in COSATU infighting, with two rival factions set to hold separate events to commemorate May Day. Mr Vavi's position remains at risk as COSATU holds a special central executive committee (CEC) meeting on Monday and Tuesday next week at which his fate will be decided. The meeting is expected to discuss audit reports by forensic auditors SizweNtsalubaGobodo. The two audit reports relate to administrative irregularities, allegedly committed by the employee with whom Mr Vavi had an affair. The reports relate to the sale and purchase of COSATU offices and the use of specific service providers. Mr Vavi has described the action against him as a "witch-hunt". COSATU leaders will therefore have to tread carefully as one audit report also implicates leaders aligned to the anti-Vavi group, including Deputy General Secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali and Treasurer Freda Oosthuysen. Mr Vavi is also set to face a tough time over his failure to attend a CEC meeting earlier this month. He had not attended due to solidarity with seven COSATU unions that boycotted the meeting due to the expulsion of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (NUMSA) late last year. On Thursday, Mr Mkhize said COSATU's provincial executive committee had held a two-day meeting at which Mr Vavi was discussed. "The PEC (provincial executive committee) has called for a vote of no confidence against the general secretary of COSATU for his recent behaviour. He has been calling for the unity of COSATU but his conduct is exactly contrary to his utterances. "He boycotted the recent CEC meeting of COSATU, saying he cannot do so if other unions are [not] present. A week later he went ahead and addressed a partisan meeting in which an expelled union played a key role," said Mr Mkhize, referring to a meeting of a disbanded structure of the South African Democratic Teachers Union. At the meeting, Mr Vavi reportedly said he would decide this week whether he would voluntarily relinquish his COSATU position. "Mr Vavi is not setting a good example and we believe that strong action must be taken against him for using his position to further his own personal agenda," said Mr Mkhize. Meanwhile, divisions between COSATU's warring factions are intensifying as they are planning rival Workers Day events on May 1. While the faction supporting COSATU president Sdumo Dlamini will celebrate the union's 30th anniversary at Kings Park Stadium, Durban, a pro-Vavi grouping, led by the seven "rebellious" unions and expelled NUMSA, are planning to "swarm" the streets of Durban for a "Red March" to fight labour brokers and other "neoliberal" government policies. With Natasha Marrian From: http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/labour/2015/03/27/vavi-faces-motion-of-no-c onfidence-from-cosatu -- -- 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 received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
