WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.
Original Post Date: 2007-10-05 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[So one can’t work with the likes of COSATU. In the end… the only future for this country might be conflict. Winner takes what he can. Jan]
By Karen Breytenbach
A meeting in the City Hall to which Cosatu had invited the provincial and city governments to discuss a joint war on drugs erupted in chaos as invited speakers – including the mayor and a member of the Mitchells Plain Community Policing Forum – were booed off the stage.
Affiliate unions also hijacked the meeting to deal with unrelated issues.
The SA Municipal Workers’ Union was the first to protest about Zille’s presence. Its members threatened to walk out in anger over the city’s retrenchment of 120 traffic officers. The union agreed to stay after Cosatu provincial secretary Tony Ehrenreich pleaded with its members to use the opportunity to engage the city administration on the issue of drug abuse.
Motivational speaker Jurgens Smit gave a presentation on dealing with drug addiction.
Norman Jantjies, on behalf of Community Safety MEC Leonard Ramatlakane, said the department was working with the department of Social Development, the NGO sector and communities to prevent gansterism and drug dealing.
The Community Safety department had tried to increase “visible policing” and had recruited neighbourhood watches to help it monitor communities, Jantjies said. Millions were being spent on school safety, liquor control and combating gangsterism.
The police were targeting 15 areas, he said, before being cut short by howling members of the audience.
As Zille stepped behind the microphone, she was goaded by members of the National Union of Metal Workers in the back rows.
Ehrenreich and Cosatu provincial chairman Munroe Mkalipi tried in vain to call the audience to order and before long a group of Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU) members danced to the front of the stage.
Zille left without being able to give her speech.
Mitchells Plain Community Policing Forum deputy chair Abe Isaacs took the podium next, but spoke for less than a minute before chaos erupted again and he had to stop.
Most of about 600 shop stewards from different sectors who filled the hall began yelling, ululating and toyitoying, prompting Ehrenreich and Mkalipi to plead for calm.
The rest of the meeting was used to brief the audience on negotiations with various sectors at the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac).
The SA Transport and Allied Workers’ Union’s regional secretary, Evan Abrahamse, said negotiations with Metrorail were bearing fruit. Metrorail appeared open to the union’s suggestion to allow free travel for pensioners by April. Metrorail had also agreed to improve security by putting up CCTV cameras at stations.
Other issues on the table were overcrowding, damaged carriages, trains being late, the need for more trains at more frequent intervals, and the establishment of a fund for victims of accidents or crime on trains.
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union was to meet public health representatives at Nedlac in four weeks to discuss the underfunding of Groote Schuur and Tygerberg hospitals and cuts in beds, said spokesperson Soraya Jawoodeen.