Vavi's expulsion has grave implications for SA

There are no innocent victims here. Had Zwelinzima Vavi - the recently expelled Cosatu general secretary - been the one with the numbers on the trade union federation's central executive committee, he would have done the same to his rival, Sdumo Dlamini.We have been here before.In February 2008 - fresh from claiming the scalp of the then president Thabo Mbeki at the ANC's Polokwane conference - Vavi supporters in the central executive committee dropped the axe on Dlamini's predecessor, Cosatu p...