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News24 reports that Zwelinzima Vavi stated on Monday that Cosatu's endorsement of Cyril Ramaphosa to lead the ANC was a desperate attempt by the trade union federation to salvage some relevance and credibility.
He said at the 10th national congress of the National Union of Metalworkers SA (Numsa) in Cape Town: “Cosatu and the SACP yet again want to use workers, not only as voting fodder, but they also want to trample them underfoot as they clamber higher into positions of power in government, and in SOEs and other positions of authority, so that they too can call a swimming pool a fire pool when it is politically convenient to do so.” Vavi went on to say that Cosatu was again repeating a mistake it made when it was part of that “unprincipled rubber-stamp alliance”. He added that the once-proud labour federation was in cahoots with bosses and ruling elites to sell out the interest of workers.
- Read this report by Thulani Gqirana and Liesl Peyper in full at News24
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