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NEHAWU Media Statement, 30 March, 2015
It is Cowardly and Opportunistic for Cde Zwelinzima Vavi to use the Name of
our Former General Secretary to Fight his Battles
NEHAWU has noted the underwhelming "big announcement" by the General
Secretary of COSATU, Zwelinzima Vavi. While it is always tempting to respond
to Vavi's self-righteous and inflated rants, we will leave it to the Central
Executive Committee (CEC) of COSATU to do that.
Our immediate concerns at the moment are the difficult ongoing public
service wage negotiations and other union campaigns, not the theatrics and
the phony outrage of a self-important individual.
We have now become used to hearing the COSATU GS, waxing lyrical about how
terribly radical and cutting edge a worker leader he is, while accusing
those he considers to be his opponents of being stuffy settled conformists.
What is obvious, from yesterday's press conference though, is that Cde Vavi
is not only a shameless publicist and a self-pitying delusionist but also an
angry man. He never misses an opportunity to drag the name of our former
General Secretary, Fikile "Slovo" Majola, when he cannot deal with his
problems. We find this cowardly and opportunistic.
Cde Majola said all what he said because he was mandated by the union. Thus,
with respect to the quotations from Sowetan, our former General Secretary
responded to a question in which he echoed a shared analysis and concerns
within the union in terms of the risks and challenges that the federation
faced. Vavi must stop trying to isolate Cde Majola from NEHAWU, because he
communicated the positions of the union with discipline and honesty,
something that Cde Vavi is finding difficult to do in his own job.
We are calling on him to leave our former General Secretary alone. He is no
longer the General Secretary of the union and is in parliament in line with
the COSATU policy of the swelling of the ranks, in the footsteps of
countless leaders of the federation. Cde Majola was also elected into the
national leadership structures of the ANC and SACP as an active member of
these organisations in his own right. Cde Vavi should be familiar with this,
including the resolution of the last congress on building the ANC, something
that he previously approved of until recently.
Instead of focusing on our former General Secretary, he will do well to
focus on explaining to workers, why the federation is in financial
difficulties. He should be busy explaining the reasoning behind the awarding
of contracts to people, who are doing business with his wife.
Cde Vavi's primary achievement has been in confusing the public mind with
his discourse of conspiracy. Despite the fact that the federation has
reached this point of unprecedented internal challenges on his watch, having
been its General Secretary for the last 15 years, nothing is ever his fault
as far as he is concerned. He has every right to continue making his "big
announcements" using whatever medium he chooses, but he should leave Cde
Fikile Majola's name out of it.
Issued by NEHAWU National Office Bearers
For further information, please contact Bereng Soke {NEHAWU General
Secretary} @082 455 2713 or Sizwe Pamla (NEHAWU Media Liaison Officer) at
011 833 2902 -082 558 5962 or email: [email protected]
Visit NEHAWU website: www.nehawu.org.za
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