Eish.. people continue to suffer from Numsa maladies. We are not in the public
sector and we have no business on their wage agreement. Regards
Mokibe C Bokaba
cell: 083 584 4827
Fax: 086 407 7055
;The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from
the support of a cause we believe to be just.
On Friday, May 22, 2015 7:03 PM, VC <[email protected]> wrote:
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Statement on SAPSU, 22 May 2015 SADTU condemns Sapsu’s attack on COSATU
Public Service Unions wage agreement The South African Democratic Teachers’
Union (SADTU) strongly condemns the so called South African public service
union's (Sapsu) anarchist view on the public service wage negotiation deal
signed by COSATU Public Service Unions this week. Sapsu's Thobile Ntola’s rant
and rave does not come as a surprise to us. His myopic view that public sector
workers have been sold out is pure baseless drivel driven by his utter contempt
for the ANC and its Alliance partners. He is consumed by anger and bitterness
due to his disgraceful exit from SADTU and the Federation. He will always be
remembered as a corrupt leader who uses rhetoric to garner support and
sympathy. Accusing our leaders of selling-out and describing them as greedy,
embedded in the pockets and dependent on survival on political patronage and
sleeping in bed with the ANC, is laughable. How would Ntola describe his
partner-in-crime Irvin Jim who went all the way to Nkandla, cap in hand, to beg
for the Deputy Presidency position from President Zuma? Ntola’s bitterness is
poisoning his mind and causing him to lose perspective. He boasts of NUMSA’S
gains in the private sector but the two are not comparable. NUMSA is in the
private sector while the Public Sector Unions are dealing with government. To
suggest that we blindly signed an un-mandated agreement is malicious. SADTU
has been sending updates to members regularly and members were taken on board
thorough short message system. The negotiations process took tough eight months
and was also marked by marches countrywide and in Pretoria. It was only after
the our members’ actions that the employer, revisited its paltry 4,8% to 7%.
We never bull-dozed the independent unions into signing, they did so in their
own free will. If they were opposed to the offer, why didn’t they march with us
to Pretoria? Since when has he become their spokesperson? Who is Ntola to
tell our workers what to accept or not? He is supposed to be in class teaching
learners but is all over the country building his union while receiving
government salary. To him that is a “revolutionary task”. This populist
cheque-collector is fooling himself because teachers know that he lives in a
R3,5m house for free since 2010. He lied about having been allowed to live in
that house because he had security threats whilst hiding his capitalist taste.
To him that is "revolutionary task". Why is the department charging and
dismissing our members for absenteeism from school when this corrupt populist
has never been in class since June 2014 to date? Why is he not charged for
absconding? He can only do that in the Eastern Cape education department
because he is running it through proxy anarchists and hooligans who came to
march to our head office. In 2012, while he was still the leader of SADTU,
the public sector unions signed a 7% wage deal when the inflation was at 6,3%.
Where was this self-appointed revolutionary then? Was he selling out the
workers? Our teachers and all the public servants know him as an anarchist and
populist who thinks screaming working class makes him a hero. He has no
credibility and no member must even listen to verbal diarrhea. We have signed
the 7% deal when the inflation is at 4,1%. The Federation will always hold the
interests of the working class at heart. No amount of seduction of workers will
change our member’s views towards him. SADTU wants to be clear that COSATU
unions will never betray their members. We are mandated to serve in that
structure and represent the interests of our members not our own. We know what
our members are saying in this context and maybe we should advice Ntola that we
are not like him because of his obsession with materialism led him to
compromise workers interest. It is his love for extravagant consumerism and
wealth accumulation that brought his downfall, which ultimately led to his
expulsion. As a business Unionist, he received kickbacks from service providers
to quench his uncontrollable lavish lifestyle. He remains a lion in a sheep
skin, and his recent attack is nothing but a desperate attempt for public
sympathy by a desperate man. People like him belong to a political dustbin.
Like his ilk, they have developed a hallucinating belief that they alone have
capacity in some manner to declare themselves as the voice of reason. Their
brand of politics is dangerous for a democratic country. He thinks to be
revolutionary is to criticize the Federation’s work. The working class should
beware of high level of opportunism which is taking place at the expense of the
hard work we have done. It has become fashionable for people like him to use
COSATU’s name in their gatherings to profile themselves. The workers’
struggle is supposed to be led by leaders with best interest of the workers at
heart, not fame obsessed people. We encourage workers to rise against these
propagandists who are hell bent in destroying the gains of the workers.
Issued by: SADTU Secretariat Contact:Mugwena Maluleke, General Secretary, 082
783 2968Nkosana Dolopi, Deputy General Secretary, 082 709 5651Nomusa Cembi,
Media Officer, 082 719 5157
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