MKMVA CONDEMNS THE RACIST OPPOSITION OF SOLIDARITY TRADE UNION TO THE WELL DESERVED PROMOTION OF OUR MEMBERS IN SAPS, AND WARNS THAT THEIR CONDUCT WILL NO LONGER BE TOLERATED
Date: Saturday, 10 November 2018
The Solidarity Trade Union (Solidarity) has once again proved itself to be a reactionary and racist organization, that hankers back to apartheid and the years of white domination in the workplace where job reservation was the norm and senior positions were reserved for white people, simply because of the color of their skin without consideration for qualifications, service records and ability.
Solidarity’s blatant attacks on former Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) combatants, who are members of MKMVA, and who are employed in the South African Police Service (SAPS), in order to try and prevent them from being promoted to senior ranks must be understood in the context of their persistent racist, and white supremacist, attitudes.
It is disturbing to note how Solidarity abuses social media platforms to spread malicious lies against former liberation fighters who are employed in SAPS. Their mobilization against former non-statutory forces inside the structures of SAPS has been relentless, and is intended to cause increased internal racial tension among members of SAPS, and to undermine its efficient functioning.
It is furthermore disturbing to note how mainstream media houses such News24 allow themselves to be used and abused by Solidarity, and report their racist drivel without any attempt at fair and critical analytical reporting. The front page report in the Afrikaans newspaper Rapport last Sunday (4 November 2018) under the emotive headline: “Dit reën range by SAPS” (It rains ranks at SAPS), was an example of Solidarity’s racist propaganda being published without any attempt to do fair reporting and to investigate what the truth is.