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Vavi suspension declared invalid, set aside SAPA, News24, Johannesburg, 4 April 2014 COSATU general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi's suspension has been declared invalid and set aside. The South Gauteng High Court ruled on Friday that Vavi can return to his office on Monday. In August last year, COSATU said Vavi had been put on special leave pending the outcome of a disciplinary hearing relating to his affair with a junior employee. In July, the employee accused him of rape. He said they had an affair. The woman subsequently withdrew a sexual harassment complaint against him. Following Vavi's suspension the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa), an ally of his, lodged an application in the South Gauteng High Court challenging the decision. Vavi then lodged papers to be added as an applicant in Numsa's challenge. In these, he asks the court to grant him an interim order interdicting and restraining COSATU from enforcing any decision taken at its CEC meeting in August. He wants final relief to review and set aside the decision to suspend him and institute disciplinary proceedings. Legal teams for Vavi and Numsa argued last week that the way the decision was taken to suspend the general secretary was undemocratic and a breach of COSATU's constitution. COSATU argued that it used a long standing practice of taking majority rule without putting it to a vote. Vavi on Thursday said he would not be at the judgment because his daughter had been in a car accident in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. He is still facing internal disciplinary procedures and his hearing is expected next month. - SAPA From: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Vavi-suspension-declared-invalid-set- aside-20140404 -- -- 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/d/optout.
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