RAMOPHOSA'S HYPOCRITICAL VIRTUOUSNESS WILL NEVER WIN THE HEARTS OF THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR.

The Congress of the People Youth Movement is really flabbergasted by the pronouncements made by the Deputy President of the ANC Cyril Ramaphosa urging business to provide and create conducive working conditions for the workers while himself and the Lonmin Mining Company turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to ordinary workers pleading to get a living wage in Marikana which virtually turned into one atrocious unprecedented massacre post democratic dispensation in South Africa.

We are really surprised by Mr. Ramaphosa who wants to be a leader of virtue today though his actions attributed to Marikana massacre are vividly diametrically opposed to the call that he made yesterday when he said "Where we were not doing anything actively about improving the living conditions of workers, business should go back to the drawing board and ask themselves, 'what is it that we can do to improve the livelihood and the living conditions of the people?'" these are some of the brilliant advices he should have given to the Lonmin company to avoid the killings of 34 mine workers and tax payers money expended on Marikana Commission of Inquiry.

The working class and the poor of this country won't take lightly what Mr. Ramaphosa has said because it is obvious that when he was amassing wealth and generating millions to his pockets he cared less about the workers whose sweat made him one of the millionaires in the Southern tip of Africa. However today he is occupying the second highest ranking position in the ANC and he is trying to lure the same very people he neglected and alienated them from having better lives with a bowl of seeking votes and speaking the language that resonates with the interests of the poor and the working class when he further said "Businesses should go beyond just paying people. We should start asking ourselves where they live ... human beings are not just commodities. The accommodation of workers is too appalling and needs attention, it needed to be attended to..."

Our people are still waiting, when will the appalling living conditions be changed for the better for mine workers in Lonmin? If really MR Ramaphosa is genuine in what he said, he could have apologized to the people of South Africa and affected families regarding what had happened in Marikana as a shareholder in Lonmin Company but he resorted only to apologize on eighteen million rand he lavishly spent on a buffalo which tells us that his heart is dear to the money and unworthy to the people.

Congress of the People Youth Movement is making a clarion call to the People of South Africa more especially the working class to wear revolutionary spectacles in order not to look smart but to see clearer and be in a position of critically analyzing hypocrisy in new clothes which is exactly like the views of Mr. Ramaphosa and also a rooted culture in the ANC where people will condemn corruption and exploitation while the same very leaders are wolfs in sheep skin.

Statement issued by Abel Rangata Secretary General of COPEYM and Nqaba Bhanga, President of COPEYM, January 10 2013

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