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We are not scapegoats: Mantashe Qaanitah Hunter, The New Age, Johannesburg, 30 August 2013 ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe says he will not be used as a "scapegoat" for divisions that has pitted the National Union of Metal Workers SA (Numsa) against trade union federation Cosatu. This comes after Numsa general secretary Irvin Jim isolated Mantashe along with Sacp general secretary Blade Nzimande for being behind attempts to divide Cosatu. "A divided Cosatu is to the ANC's disadvantage. Only a fool will want to divide Cosatu," Mantashe said. He refuted further claims made by Numsa that his utterances fulled divisions in the alliance. "When they line up behind (Cosatu general secretary Zwelenzima) Vavi and (Cosatu President Sdumo) Dlamini then they are creating a cult personality. We can't have this," Mantashe said. Numsa had boycotted the Economic Alliance Summit which started on Friday citing lack of preparedness. It has openly maintained its allegiance behind Vavi who has been suspended for sexual misconduct. "Nobody must worship personalities. It is a danger to our movement," Mantashe said. He said he was not concerned about Numsa's absence at the summit because it was a meeting between the alliance, not between individual affiliated unions. The summit is due to continue until Sunday with alliance members set to debate the National Development Plan, macroeconomic policies- among other economic related policies. [email protected] From: http://www.thenewage.co.za/105984-1007-53-We_are_not_scapegoats_Mantashe -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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