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SABC News reports that Communication Workers Union (CWU) general secretary Aubrey Tshabalala says reports that he’s expelled from the union are fake news.
Reports earlier emerged that Tshabalala had been dismissed with immediate effect from CWU for bringing the organisation into disrepute. In a letter apparently sent to Tshabalala, as seen by SABC News, the union purportedly alleged that he continued to act as general secretary while on suspension and engaged with the business rescue practitioners of the SA Post Office (Sapo), which caused confusion during the business rescue processes. His conduct was said to have had direct dire negative impact on the rights of CWU members employed by Sapo. However, in reaction, Tshabalala said the letter was fabricated. He indicated: “It’s fake news in actual essence because even the letter that you have has no signature. It’s an anonymous letter that you received. If people are holding a meeting under a tree or somewhere else in a shebeen and write a letter and send it to media, we don’t even have to respond to that. It’s just courtesy to SABC because we respect the public broadcaster and we are saying in this day and time you can expect fake news to flaunt around on social media but not on the public broadcaster. You see in an organisation there are rules and policies, if there’s a person charged, he goes to the disciplinary committee but the letter itself doesn’t even touch on that.”
- Read the original of the short report in the above regard by Ntombi Mavimbela at SABC News
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