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*Tannie Zille Strikes Back *...Consider how Cosatu campaigns against e-tolling, while it is also a shareholder in a company called Raubex, which won an R800 million tender as part of the e-tolling project. Cosatu then said it didn't know it was a shareholder, but then it turned out that the CEO of Cosatu's investment arm was until recently serving as the non-executive Chairman of Raubex. There is no better way of saying "/uitgevang/".
But Cosatu really plumbed the depths of hypocrisy when it led a campaign against the Secrecy Bill, even though its own Members of Parliament, sitting in the ANC benches, voted for the Bill.
In the context of the picture I have sketched above, it is clear that Cosatu does not have the interests of the poor at heart.
Cosatu's interest is power.It is clear that Zwelinzima Vavi is engaged in a campaign to construct for himself a power base from which he will attempt to capture the alliance at the ANC's 2017 conference.
The tripartite alliance does not cohere around a cogent policy framework. It is only held together by the glue of cadre deployment and the maintenance of power.
As the internal battle in the ANC heats up, and Cosatu jockeys for more of the power, it has cleverly tried to paint itself as the "internal opposition" inside the tripartite alliance - the faction which supposedly stands up for clean, open government and resists the culture of greed and self-enrichment in the ANC.
It is time South Africans saw through Cosatu. It wants to keep unemployed people excluded from jobs and economic opportunities, to protect its power base.
The Democratic Alliance will keep offering South Africans an alternative government that will open opportunities to all, get many more South Africans working, that will do what it takes to turn around education, and that will give every South African the chance to be part of the economy.
We'll carry on winning votes one by one, street by street, town by town across the country. We already have an electoral mandate from 3 million South Africans - something Mr Vavi does not. If he wants to run this country, then he should put his name on the ballot and stand for election. But I'm not holding my breath.
*Thank you.**Longer version at: http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71654?oid=294633&sn=Detail&pid=71616 <http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71654?oid=294633&sn=Detail&pid=71616>*
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