VAVI: I’M SORRY, SOUTH AFRICANS: NO!

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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.

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Who are you going to vote for?

We all know how things become when its election time, lot of similar promises from different parties and less delivery at times. But a moment of truth is coming once again where we elect people to lead us, but we finds our selves caught in the hub, where we feel that we have to be loyal in the certain party and still need service delivery.  Let’s see what happened in the past five years, after the elections.

• We have seen people in Marikana being killed by officers in Rusternberg.
• We’ve seen toilets saga in Cape Town and poo dumping in public areas like airport and one of the biggest roads in Cape Town.
• Education system is Limpompo and Eastern Cape and book saga in Limpompo
• Nelson Mandela’s family financial battle
• BaThembu
• Gupta family landing in a military air base

Possible parties to look up to in the next year’s elections.

ANC

DA

COPE

AGANG
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF),

UDM

Most of these parties haven’t gotten a chance to prove that they can do the job. Lets start with ANC.

They started with a bang  but lost it along the way.
DA- who took over Western Cape by storm managed to do a lot in a short space of time, but kind of failed to deliver to everyone, according to Khayelitsha people.
AGANG- a new party formed by respected person, with dignified integrity, with a promising future, but it is likely that people will not belive in it from the the beginning.
COPE- The only party that was capable of taking down ANC at that time but became greedy and South Africans lost hope in it.

And we also have a knew kid in the block, the Economic Freedom Fighter,
unlike the most anti-Malema, I think Julius Malema, stands a fighting chance at the polls next year.
He is a very popular guy, who speaks his mind,even if he had to be punished for it and people are likely to recognise him, and vote for him, despite the crimes he's accused of. People are looking for a voice, they intend to forget about the other things and focus where they want to focus, which is for them to be heard most of the times.

It is not a secret that most of the people are angry at ANC and its members, so it will be a great revenge to vote for someone who they excluded.

He stands for something that all working class South African want, even though we saw in the past that he doesn't do what he says, but it is likely that he will eventually gain popularity.

The choice is your

Who are you going to vote for next year.

Dont speak Ill of the dead

Members of parliament all speak good things about the late Sicelo Shiceka lets look at his profile and what he achieved in his life. Business Address Close Sicelo Shiceka's Professional details Previous Position(s) Minister | Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs | Government of South Africa South Africa | 2009 - 2011 Government, Public Administration and Defence -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Minister of Provincial and Local Government | Government of South Africa Pretoria | 2008 - 2009 Government, Public Administration and Defence -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chairperson | Religious Affairs sub-Committee | ANC Provincial Executive Committee’s Commission South Africa | 2004 - 2007 Government, Public Administration and Defence -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deputy Chairperson | NEC Legislation & Governance Sub-Committee South Africa | 2007 Government, Public Administration and Defence -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chairperson | Gauteng Peace and Stability Sub-Committee | African National Congress South Africa | 2007 Government, Public Administration and Defence -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chairperson | Constitutional Development and Administration in the National Council of Provinces (Parliament) South Africa | 2004 Government, Public Administration and Defence -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chairperson | Select Committee on Local Government South Africa | 2004 Government, Public Administration and Defence -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chairperson | Committee for Safety & Security in the Gauteng Provincial Government South Africa | 1999 Government, Public Administration and Defence -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deputy Chairperson | African National Congress Kyalami Region South Africa | 1993 Government, Public Administration and Defence -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Provincial Secretary | Cosatu South Africa | 1992 Government, Public Administration and Defence -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Co-convenor | PWV Economic Development Forum South Africa | 1992 Government, Public Administration and Defence -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deputy Chairperson | Johannesburg | South African Communist Party South Africa | 1991 Government, Public Administration and Defence -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Provincial Secretary | Paper Printing Wood and Allied Workers Union South Africa | 1990 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organiser | Paper Printing Wood and Allied Workers Union South Africa | 1989 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leader | Azanian Students Organisation South Africa | 1987 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Branch Chairman | Congress of South African Students Soweto | 1980 Government, Public Administration and Defence -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Director | 2010 FIFA World Cup Local Organising Commitee South Africa Sport and Recreation Educational history Tertiary University of the Free State Masters degree in Political Economy Wharton Business School Pennsylvania, United State of America (USA). Diploma in Economic University of the Witwatersrand Diploma in Labour Relations Activities Memberships African National Congress Member Executive Council for Development Planning and Local Government Member, 1994 - 1999 Provincial Executive Committee of the South African Communist Party Member, 1991 - present Provincial Working Committee of the South African Communist Party Member, 1993 - present Gauteng Provincial Executive Council of ANC Member, 1996 - present Committee On Public Services, Parliament of South Africa Member Provincial Legislative Proposals, Parliament of South Africa Member Joint Standing Committee on Defence Member Land and Environmental Affairs, Government of South Africa Member Select Committee On Land and Environmental Affairs Constitutional Review Committee Member National Council of Provinces, Parliament of South Africa Member, 2004 - present Political Committee ANC Member, 2007 - 2012 (but dead now) From news24 Sicelo Shiceka's death a tragedy I like to think that I am not naïve. I know that the anonymity and ease of access of the internet make it a sheltered environment for all the ugliest sides of human nature. Faceless people can say what they like with no fear of censure or accountability, and what they like to say can sometimes be very ugly indeed. I was, however, left feeling uncomfortable at some of the outpourings of hate which greeted Sicelo Shiceka’s assumedly long and painful death. You would think that we were all celebrating the death of a serial killer! Sicelo Shiceka was not a serial killer. He was a bent politician. He abused the position of trust that he had been placed in and took what was not rightfully his. I certainly don’t think we should be building any statues in his honour, but it’s not like he was an apartheid minister or anything. And I do think we should all regret his passing. Obviously he will be mourned by his family and friends (and a lonely Swiss prison inmate). There are also many out there who still admire his contribution to the struggle. For others he was a brother in arms, a fellow soldier in the fight against an oppressive system. Unfortunately, through no-one’s fault but his own, for many of us he was no better than a common thief. So why should we all be saddened by his death? It has everything to do with how he lived. Our nation is at a critical point in its history. The government who freed us from oppression is very quickly making the transition from being liberators to being a nest of corrupt, self-enriching opportunists. And, for better or for worse, Sicela Shikeca was one of the worst examples of the trend. He was also exposed. The findings of the public protector left our government no choice but to remove him as a minister. And with that, he became an opportunity. This could have been the point where our leaders said “no more. This is not who we are going to be”. But they didn’t. I know he lost his ministerial job, but he was still an MP. Our government quietly removed him from the public eye, but he was never held accountable. He still drew his ministerial salary, and he was never charged. But he also became something else. Call it the elephant in the room if you will. Every day he spent as an MP was an embarrassment to his party. Every time there was a slow news day, journalists around the country could haul him out and shove him onto the front page and say “look- he’s still here. Getting paid. Not getting charged!” Every time his case was mentioned, it was harder for our leaders to pretend they were not condoning corruption. They would have had to have charged him eventually- thanks to the Public Protector, the evidence was out there. And a small battle in the war against corruption might have been won. Not any more. He’s dead. And with his death, those who would sweep his actions under the carpet are released from the growing pressure to act. If they feel it’s worth the effort, the spin doctors can even set to work turning him into a hero of the struggle again. And all of his colleagues will quietly note that there were no real consequences to his actions, and one or two more who were teetering on the brink will quietly slip their hands into the till. So for all of you screaming “yeehah!” and lining up to spit on his grave, stop being such dicks and think for a second. His death is far more of a loss to you than it is to his party.