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Original Post Date: 2008-10-31 Time: 04:00:08 Posted By: Jan
By Gaye Davis and Siyabonga Mkhwanazi
Cosatu is sending top leaders into the provinces in a bid to block any inroads dissident unionist Willie Madisha is making as he tries to forge an alternative labour formation allied with the proposed new party of Mosiuoa Lekota and Mbhazima Shilowa.
Cosatu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said that the trade union federation was taking the threat “very seriously”.
“We are aware he (Madisha) has been quite busy … The strategy is to approach people who did not get their way at some of the (affiliates’) conferences – that’s fertile ground.
“It’s a serious threat. We are quite concerned. Workers rely on their numbers and their unity – if you attack that, you really have disrupted us.”
Vavi will, on Thursday address hundreds of shop stewards in Klerksdorp, while Cosatu President Sdumo Dlamini will do the same in the Eastern Cape.
Vavi said there were numerous instances where breakaway factions within Cosatu affiliates – though only involving small numbers of workers – had sparked strikes and “caused mayhem”.
Vavi said he was sure Madisha’s attempt would fail. “We are convinced that no businessman can ever succeed in mobilising workers – and Madisha is a businessman. This is a class war … that we must defend with everything we have. This is about the poor against the rich, and the media is not our friend,” Vavi said.
Cosatu’s North West provincial secretary Solly Phetoe shared Vavi’s view that the labour movement had to prevent the recruitment of their members to join the breakaway faction of Lekota and Shilowa.
He said the splinter group wanted to “divide the working class, who are the core members of the ANC and SACP”.
“Cosatu calls all its members to protect the federation, ANC and the SACP against the hooligans such as those who are in the process of splitting the ANC for self-enrichment and starting an organisation of their own,” he added.
Dlamini has meanwhile declined an invitation from Shilowa to attend the national convention in Sandton this weekend.
He said there were more important issues affecting the working class that needed to be attended to.