VAVI’S INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP-SEEKING ENVOY A QUACK
16 August 2015
In the last month, Irvin Jim of NUMSA and Zwelinzima Vavi, the defunct former COSATU General Secretary went on a wicked solidarity-seeking mission in which all was said about the rest, but nothing about the role they played.
A clip titled “The struggle for Justice inside the South African Freedom Movement” (see below) is nothing but an exaggerated fuss which has nothing to do with its title, but a publicity-seeking stint that is slowly swindling away from the once media-happy former General Secretary whom during his ‘heydays’ opted to abandon organisational processes and instead communicate with the media.
It is important to acknowledge that any form of struggle is not an event, but a process. In a process, there are continuous engagements and dynamics at play, and in this regard, our federation has rules and guidelines for maintaining order and guide our scope. In this sense, the principle of Democratic Centralism provides a uniting knack behind all agreed positions.
Mr Vavi seems to belittle the decisions taken with him as part of the COSATU leadership and creates a false and dishonest impression that he was not part to such, when a collective had endorsed that members of the union and different affiliates should form part of government, a move that would seek to see more unionists swaying policy issues towards benefitting workers.