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Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has called for an ethical turnaround and shift in attitude in the alliance. He said that there was a lack of leadership excellence and DA would mount a serious challenge for power for becoming distanced from the people, by 2019.
Vavi held leadership failures responsible on a dearth of political consciousness among unions and political officials who had sidelined the poor.
He spoke to nearly 1,000 delegates at the National Union of Metalworkers’ congress in Durban on Thursday, “Too many of our leaders stay in Sandton, in former whites-only suburb, and a lot of them have become visitors in the theatre of class struggle”.
He added, “If workers are not there to contest the direction, then others may use their power and influence to direct the train away from the Freedom Charter”, “Every person walks round with a demon of power inside him, wants to be something in life… There is nothing more compromising – although not in every case – than to get a general secretary saying something on this platform and then to say something else on another platform, because people are not fools”.
Jacob Zuma, the president advised Numsa delegates to be involved in the ANC in all stages, this week. Vavi was now more convinced because of the dangers of becoming compromised, that somebody who has “the face and voice of workers on the basis of their mandate must be spared from this push to swell the ranks”.
Blade Nzimande, the Higher Education Minister, the general secretary of the SACP has resisited pressure from Numsa to wear only one hat.
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