Vavi lashes out at ANC and alliance partners - labels them as thieves

06 June 2016 - 18:56 By Asanda Nini

Expelled former Cosatu general-secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has lashed out at leaders of the ruling ANC and its alliance partners‚ Cosatu and the SACP‚ labelling them as “thieves who have transformed from the principles of selflessness to those of selfishness”. Vavi tore into the tripatite alliance leaders‚ saying they had abandoned the principle of a better life for all and replaced it with a principle of a better life “for a few connected and elite individuals”.Jobs will be at heart of new labour federation‚ says VaviFormer Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said the issue of unemployment in the country would be at the top of the agenda of the formation of his new labour federation. Vavi was addressing an estimated 400 members of the newly formed labour union‚ the South African Public Service Union‚ in East London’s Frere Hospital on Monday afternoon.Politics of rage puts South Africa's gains in danger Amid the growing protest turmoil on our campuses and in our towns, SA’s leaders seem to have abandoned Madiba’s legacy of reason in rage, writes Adam HabibHe told the jovial crowd that former liberation struggle leaders such as Nelson Mandela‚ Steve Biko‚ Chris Hani and Robert Sobukwe “must be turning in their graves because the dreams they had of a united and free for all South Africa‚ were turning into a nightmare”...

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