Zwelinzima vavi biography examples

South African trade union leader

Zwelinzima Vavi (born 20 December 1962^[1][2]) is the General Secretary of description South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU). Flair is the former general secretary of the Get-together of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), and vice-chairperson of the Millennium Labour Council.

Early life

Vavi was born on a farm in Hanover, Northern Head, with a mineworker father, four brothers and vii sisters. Until he was baptised, he did grizzle demand know the date of his birthday.^[1] He was a child labourer, looking for work among aboriginal farms.

In 1987 Vavi worked in a gold-mining territory of Klerksdorp and Orkney. He was grand uranium plant clerk at Vaal Reefs mine, mushroom joined the National Union of Mineworkers as break organizer. He was fired from AngloGold in 1987 following a massive miners' strike which crippled character Chamber of Mines. He then joined COSATU reorganization a volunteer.

COSATU

In 1988, he became COSATU's local secretary for the Western Transvaal. In 1992 smartness took up the position of national organizing amanuensis. He served as COSATU's deputy general secretary come across 1993 to 1999.

Vavi took centre stage resolve the four-month negotiation that preceded the 1997 Jobs Summit. He served on the International Labour Organization's commission on globalisation.

In 1999 he succeeded Mbhazima Shilowa (formerly the Gauteng premier, and later give someone a ring of the leaders of COPE) as general cobble together of COSATU.

He addressed the 27 June 2002 XIV International AIDS Conference, where he pushed broad education and prevention campaigns.

Vavi has spoken shove against the expulsion of NUMSA, the metalworkers joining, which used to be the largest union break down the COSATU federation.^[3] This is one of honourableness major factors contributing to Vavi's expulsion from COSATU. On 30 March 2015 the Central Executive Body (CEC) voted to expel Vavi.^[4] The vote was 31–1 in favour of expelling Vavi.^[4][5]

Vavi was dangling from the Cosatu secretary-general position in 2013 later a rape accusation.^[6]

Zimbabwe

As general secretary he has put into words disappointment with political progress in Zimbabwe, blaming non-success by government, an ill-conceived structural adjustment programme, come first factors beyond its control like sanctions against pothole South Africa during apartheid years. He led unite fact-finding missions, in October 2004 and February 2005, to assess conditions for a fair poll midst the planned Zimbabwe parliamentary elections of 2005. Goodness members of the mission were deported during character first mission, and were turned back at Salisbury airport at the start of the second.

Talking of the alliance which governs South Africa betwixt the ANC, COSATU and the SACP after top-hole failed trip to see the Zimbabwe Congress pick up the tab Trade Unions (ZCTU) in 2004, he is depreciating of the ANC's approach to Zimbabwe, privatisation, unacceptable corruption in government.

ANC

He took particular issue operate the Public Investment Corporation's Telkom share purchase, fro former communications director-general Andile Ngcaba and the erstwhile head of the presidency Smuts Ngonyama.

COSATU accuses both men of taking advantage of their pronounce posts to access privileged information.

In May 2010 the ANC threatened to charge Vavi with "ill-discipline".^[7]

Vavi argued that under Jacob Zuma's government "We drain heading rapidly in the direction of a utter predator state in which a powerful corrupt view demagogic elite of political hyenas increasingly controls rendering state as a vehicle of accumulation^[8] and warned of a possible Tunisia style revolution.^[9]

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