PRESS STATEMENT ON THE DEVELOPMENTS REGARDING THE DISCIPLINARY CHARGES AGAINST COSATU GENERAL SECRETARY AND ANC ELECTIONS MANIFESTO

(15th January 2014)

The Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) will convene an urgent meeting of its leadership, the National Office Bearers (NOBs), on Friday the 24th January 2014 as well as a Special National Executive Committee (NEC) on the 6th and 7th February to take stock on the unfolding situation, including the charge sheet served on the General Secretary of COSATU, Zwelinzima Vavi, and the outcomes of the Special National Congress of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (NUMSA) as well as the content of the Elections Manifesto of the African National Congress (ANC).

These meetings will further receive legal opinion from our lawyers on what options and legal recourse we may have in the light of the delayed convening of COSATU Special National Congress given that we were the first union to make such a call and was subsequently supported by eight other affiliates.

Additionally, FAWU will seek a legal opinion on the disciplinary actions against Comrade Vavi and take appropriate organizational decisions on how to tackle the issue, especially in the light of glaring violation to the COSATU constitution that has characterized the whole fiasco and the attached cost thereto.

FAWU remains resolute that it wants the return of Vavi back to his office as an elected General Secretary of the federation and on the holding of Special National Congress by March 2014.

Statement issued by FAWU General Secretary, Katishi Masemola, January 15 2014

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