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Court postpones Vavi application SAPA, News24, Johannesburg, 10 September 2013 NUMSA's application to have COSATU general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi's suspension overturned was postponed by the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday after an application by opposing unions to intervene was allowed. Addressing the unions present in court, Craig Watt-Pringle SC, for the intervening unions, said it had been agreed that the application be postponed indefinitely to allow them to file affidavits. "The intervening unions have been allowed to intervene. The matter is likely to be set down for 8 October," he said. The National Union of Metalworkers of SA (NUMSA) was expected to file an opposing affidavit by 2 October. The intervening unions are the National Union of Mineworkers, the SA Democratic Teachers' Union, the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union, the SA Transport and Allied Workers' Union, the National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union, the Finance Union, and the Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers' Union. The court was packed with people wearing the T-shirts of various unions, including NUMSA, the Food, and Allied Workers' Union, and the Congress of SA Trade Unions (COSATU). NUMSA general secretary Irvin Jim was present and stood outside before the proceedings started. During an adjournment, Jim spoke to COSATU president Sidumo Dlamini. Vavi was suspended last month for bringing COSATU into disrepute after he admitted to having an affair with an employee. In court papers, NUMSA called Vavi's suspension "unconstitutional and unprecedented". FAWU and the SA Football Players' Union are listed as co-applicants in NUMSA's court action. There was no sign of Vavi on Tuesday morning. - SAPA From: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Court-postpones-Vavi-application-2013 0910 -- -- 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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