NEHAWU 3.png NEHAWU Media Statement, 15 December, 2015 Defend Our Constitution and Democratic Mandate of the People NEHAWU notes President Jacob Zuma's announcement of the appointment of the new Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Cde David van Rooyen and the re-appointment of the Minister of Finance, Cde Pravin Gordhan. We recognise the prerogative of the President to appoint ministers and we have no basis or reason not to accept the rational for the President's appointments. However, we caution against frequent reshuffling of appointments in leadership as this may have unintended disruptive effect on progress in the implementation of the government's Medium Term Strategic Framework 2014 -2019. In this spirit, we reject the notion espoused by some dubious quarters that the Ministry of Finance is untouchable. All ministries are equal and must implement the manifesto endorsed by the majority of the electorate and government's policies. NEHAWU notes that the same individuals that publicly claimed that they do not vote or they hide the parties that they vote for, are once again trying to challenge the overwhelming mandate of the South African people. The experience of the working class is that when the economy does well it increases profit for the capitalist class which is currently on an industrial investment strike, and only concentrate on financial investment and when the economy is not doing well the same class get bail outs. The Zuma must fall campaign is not the working class campaign or in our interest. We reject this campaign that seeks to undermine the South African government and call on the alliance and the democratic movement to close ranks and defend the mandate of our people. These forces throughout the year embarked on various campaigns to undermine the ANC government, including their attempt to use the legitimate demands of university students in October, but miserably failed. They are now trying to use the issue of the Finance Minister to resuscitate their compradorist campaign. We must learn from experiences in Latin America, where the same campaign of unconstitutional regime change has been unleashed by isolating the president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff to undermine the progressive government. Whatever the disagreements there may be within our movement, there is a lot that is at stake in the broader picture. We must reject intrusions on our sovereignty by the rating agencies. We must defend the Constitution; it is the achievement of the democratic movement. We must not allow the unconstitutional agenda and campaign aimed at dividing our people. The overwhelming 62% majority vote of our people must be defended. The disguised regime change agenda must not stand, it must once again fail. End. Issued by NEHAWU Secretariat For further information, please contact: Zola Saphetha, NEHAWU Deputy General Secretary at 082 558 5968 or Thulani Skosana, NEHAWU National Spokesperson, at 011 833 2902, 082 455 2289 or email: [email protected] Visit NEHAWU website: www.nehawu.org.za -- -- 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.
