picture: www.sabc.co.za
Vavi has been the well-known voice of the public for a while, his love
for the public and interest came during the e-toll saga, he was the one who
spoke out about e-toll asking questions about it, and demanding to know who is
benefiting (demanding answers). Certain people end up giving up their jobs.
It shock the whole nation, when he told the members of the press few
years back that he has been receiving death threats, which includes threats of poisoning and
an orchestrated car-crash according to news24.
The
repeat of the past came again, when he announces this year that his family has
been putting pressure on him to leave both the ruling party African National
Congress and the leading Trade Union is South Africa COSATU.
It’s
been years since the e-toll, since Vavi was often caught on our TV screens, voicing
out his opinions and feelings against it. To the ordinary South Africans, whose
voices cannot be heard he was a hero, but to those who were prominent, he was a
threat and an enemy.
July
15, 2013, the suspended general secretary of COSATU Zwelinzima Vavi told the
eNCA that his family wants him to quit the world of politics because they are
scared that his life is in danger.
His
family has become increasingly worried about his safety and they ask him to
have an early retirement. His words shock everyone when he said he is leaving
the world of politics, and most people assumed that it was all political.
What
he said was not entirely unexpected to those who love and support him because
he has been their voice for quiet sometime according to the political analysis
and it was not the first time he was accused of a scandal like this. Few years
ago he was accused of sexual harassment.
Vavi was a board member of Corruption Watch, and he is a suspended general secretary of
the leading union in South Africa called Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu). He admitted to having an
affair with a married junior employee.
Just aweek
after he was suspended, the accuser withdrew her sexual harassment
complaint against him.
Corruption
Watch said it took into account the fact that any sexual relationship between a
senior staff member and a junior member "is almost inevitably infected by
the relationship of power that exists between them". It said senior staff
members had a responsibility to avoid such relationships, according to news 24.
Vavi
was accused of sexual harrasment by his female co-worker , the 26 years old female claimed that he
raped him, but later that week withdraw the case. It didn’t end there; the case
was just the beginning for this political veteran.
He
admitted and apologized to the nation, but it was pretty hard for most citizens
to accept the apology, what strike other people’s minds is that, he is not the
first prominent person to be accused of rape, our very own current president
was accused, and he admitted on sleeping with the woman he was not married to,
and he slept with her without a condom, current minister of sport Fikile
Mbalula, he was also exposed at the beginning of this year, but he was
forgiven, and he is still the minister of sport.
On
Aug 16, 2013 Vavi reportedly that he is going to challenge COSATU’s decision on
his suspension, ironically all those who supported him, were reported later
that their jobs were also on the line, and others are still in trouble even
now.
Around
Aug 18. 2013 Sunday times reportedly that the supporters of the suspended
general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi are planning a disobedient campaign to save
him and his job, especially his reputation.
Some
of the charges he is facing include having sex with a COSATU employee at the
union federation’s headquarters.
Sunday Time news paper
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