EFF statement on Sdumo Dlamini’s blantant lie on national TV

2 February 2016

The EFF condemns and rejects the lies made by the President of Cosatu Sdumo Dlamini on the Justice Factor Show on ENCA hosted by Justice Malala on Monday the 1st of February 2016. In this interview, Dlamini lied and said all political parties in Parliament agreed to the new tax amendment laws concerning provident fund reforms. It is a matter of public and parliament records that the EFF is the only political party that objected to the adoption of the new tax amendments laws.

Dlamini’s tantrums and lies are an opportunistic act trying to portray COSATU as the only voice of workers when it is absolutely not. Dlamini and the COSATU leadership have long abandoned worker’s interest in exchange for spoils of union-investment companies, senior positions within the ANC and its government as well as government tenders.

What is worse is the fact that even the host, Justice Malala kept on insisting that all political parties have agreed to the new tax amendment laws because they understand the importance of savings. This is a clear indication of the mediocrity of the program which is out of touch with reality and exposing the fact that Malala's sound bite intellectualism has reached unbearable levels.

The EFF remains the only political party that truly represents worker’s interests in South Africa. Workers must not be misled by COSATU, which hunts with the hounds and runs with the hares. They are not genuine, but self-seeking hypocrites who have destroyed the independent workers movement, reduced it to a toothless congress alliance labour desk that promoted career unionists.

Issued by Mbuyiseni Quntin Ndlozi, National Spokesperson, EFF, 2 February 2016