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COSATU President Sdumo Dlamini: "Come back to the CEC" Indiphile Madikida, The New Age, Johannesburg, 2 April 2015 COSATU president Sdumo Dlamini says the expulsion of COSATU general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi is a democratic decision and members should accept it. "The decision to dismiss the former general secretary was a democratic decision following the constitution. We calling on everybody to respect that decision. Vavi has been dismissed, whether he appeals or not. It's his business" Dlamini said. Speaking to ANN7 on Thursday, Dlamini said that he is aware of the claims that the unrest within COSATU that led to the axing of its controversial secretary Vavi are a personal matter between him and Vavi and that it was the Federation's decision. "I do not vote in the CEC of COSATU, the Unions leadership votes. They voted for the expulsion of Vavi. I do not vote. I did not vote. "There is nothing personal between the two of us," Dlamini said. Dlamini also slammed Vavi for making public the federation's financial status saying if there is any truth to the bankruptcy claims, Vavi being the secretary and member of the federation was also responsible for the situation. "A CEO of a company can't go public and brag about that situation. He knows he is lying, he wanted to create that situation, he knows he did almost everything to paralyse us from inside and we refused, he moved out. If he was at the centre of the COSATU, he should then be saying he is also responsible for that situation if it does exist," Dlamini added. In conclusion, Dlamini called on Unions who suspended all their activities in COSATU to accept the CEC decision and come back. He told those who support Vavi that they took a wrong political decision in supporting an individual at the expense of the federation. Dlamini said they must come back to the federation and iron out their issues. "I have pity and sympathise with them (Unions), they made a wrong political decision to support an individual other than identifying with the organisation, so when they feel the pain and express what they are expressing now, I understand that and I will say, because they are unions of COSATU, come back, express your views. COSATU Unions must come back to COSATU, we are calling on Unions that are still suspending their participation in the Central Executive Committee because they are participating in all other activities of COSATU except in the CEC, we are calling them to come back in our next meeting so that we engage on the issues," Dlamini concluded. Zwelinzima Vavi was dismissed as COSATU general secretary after a special central executive committee (CEC) meeting pronounced that he was guilty of gross misconduct. From: http://www.thenewage.co.za/155509-1009-53-I_did_not_vote_for_expulsion_of_Va vi_Sdumo_Dlamini -- -- 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.
