RAMAPHOSA AN EXAMPLE OF A BAD TRADE UNION LEADER-MOYO

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Selby Vusimusi Moyo activist Selby Vusimusi Moyo
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By Selby Vusumzi Moyo

How does one determine that a trade union leader is someone they cannot rely on?

Well, we need not go far because we have plenty of such leaders in our midst.

These trade union leaders have proven themselves to be bad people and though there might be good ones out there, they are few and far between and we do not know about them as they are not in the corridors of power.

President Cyril Ramaphosa is an example of a bad trade union leader and in fact many union leaders in this territory can hardly be called good examples of a union leader.

It is my contention that trade union leaders are by definition revolutionaries, and true revolutionaries are freedom fighters, while all true freedom fighters have the interests of all people at heart.

Being a freedom fighter and therefore having the interests of all people at heart is a lifelong commitment and not a temporal devotion.

Currently there is a group of these pseudo trade union leaders/ revolutionaries/ freedom fighters who no longer hide their true colours and intentions, but openly show all and sundry that they are puppets of the capitalists as they enable the exploitation and subjugation of the wealth of this territory and its people.

These pseudo revolutionaries have made sure that they get into government, where they will be well-placed to make decisions that guide capitalist interests as to where the wealth of the country can be accessed.

And they do all this without thinking whether local communities get displaced from their lands in the process or agree to their lands being accessed by capitalists.

Ramaphosa is the boss of these cruel former trade unionists and he must be the first and only billionaire former unionist in Africa if not in the whole world.

Billionaires are in most cases cruel people and they don’t mind being surrounded by a sea of poor people, and in the case of African billionaires, their wealth is stashed somewhere offshore.

Now isn’t that cruel?

One need not say much about Ramaphosa’s cruelty because it is well-documented and even today he has not garnered enough courage to say “I am sorry about the Lonmin Mine/Marikana Massacre.”

As an “enabler” Ramaphosa is alleged to have given orders to police to take “concomitant action” against striking Lonmin/Marikana mine workers on 16 August 2012.

This must have been the world’s nastiest irony; a former leader of the biggest mining union in Africa allegedly being responsible for the elimination of people who would have looked to him for intervention regarding their plight.

Is there any union leader today who doesn’t live a life that makes us question as to why it should be like that when workers still live under the poverty line, or worse still, lose their jobs?

All of these unionists seem to harbour the same ambition, which is to ascend to positions of power and perhaps end up becoming the country’s president some day, because if Ramaphosa could do it, then what can stop them from doing it as well?

Those who are keeping a low profile and don’t harbour ambitions of becoming the country’s president are doing so because they know that their lives are scandalous; that the ghosts of the workers who left their jobs sick and went home to die without anything to show for their toil are still haunting them.

Yet some of these fake union leaders, who are right behind Ramaphosa’s leadership, are champions of the so-called National Democratic Revolution (NDR), which they have forgotten about.

The NDR sounds terribly alien to these former unionists and upon hearing it being mentioned they will most probably suffer a heart problem, or some related condition.

But no problem, they will be given a state funeral “for the good work and commitment towards workers.”

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