Vavi questions 'bling' lifestyles

[DreamKing]

Vavi questions 'bling' lifestyles
2012-02-23 22:35

Johannesburg - Congress of SA Trade Unions general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi questioned his own lifestyle, and those of senior officials at the Numsa national political commission on Thursday.

Waving his hand at the long, silver Audi A7 TDI which had driven him to the meeting, he said: "Look at that car outside. Look at the laptops and the iPads when we go to Parliament, and look at what we are wearing.

"Check where we are staying. And then look at the conditions of the working class South African of today. Look at the taxis they ride in... how they stand eight hours in a queue at a hospital for a Panado.

He said when political consciousness disappeared, it left silently.

"When dictatorship comes, there will be no drum majorettes in the street."

He stopped his speech several times, to indicate he could not speak as freely as he would have liked with the media present. At one point he interrupted himself to say: "And I''m not saying this is a dictatorship."

He wanted to know "what is going on?" when union administrators left at 16:00, after checking their nails and spraying perfume, then rushed home to the suburbs to watch the soap opera, the Bold and the Beautiful.

He also could not understand on whose behalf some leaders thought they were sipping champagne for.

The ANC and unions needed to have a private debate, but not in front of the media, on the future of the movement that brought liberation to South Africa. He warned 2012 would be a troublesome year in South African politics.

"Let's face it comrades, the reason why we are anticipating to have such a troubled year in 2012 is because the conscience is going fast, fast, fast. The biggest challenge we are going to be facing is how do we stop the organisation from descending into a morass of corruption and eventually irrelevance."

The ANC would elect its new leadership at a conference in December. Cosatu had already resolved that the leadership collective that was formed in 2007 at Polokwane should not be broken, and that resolutions taken there should be built on, Vavi said.
- SAPA

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/Vavi-questions-bling-lifestyles-20120223

vote anc ... you deserve it.

 

[wrathex]

The Bling Misconception

To appear wealthy and thus successful in the world (according to television advertising ), a person needs to wear an Italian suit, drive a Mercedes and live in a mansion and drink imported champagne.

Such a man or woman is now ready to be respected in society, bathed and perfumed, feathers combed.

That was the old days, when we didn't know better, when the French lopped off some heads to set the record straight.

Now we know that success and happiness and wealth is not measured in a gaudy display of golden trinkets and gadgetry.

Trim back MP's, you're not looking like stuffed peacocks
Greed is not becoming.. :erm:

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Bah! Once a fatcat, always a fatcat. Try to take their perks etc away, and they'll scream blue murder.

 

[USZA]

I find his utterance incredible, as in, he has no credibility.

This is the same person who's enriching himself off the backs off blue-collar workers; now, this attack of conscience in the face of a recession. All he is saying is that they should tone down their lifestyle in view of the looming recession. Yes, appearing to be living it up in such times are just in such poor taste.

 

[biena]

What he really is saying, do not show how much you robbed so openly, show less bling and hide away the fortunes,

 

[JungleBoy]

So I'm guessing his rant was just about him getting well paid by raping poor union members, about how he rips them off and getting rich off their money? Am I right or wrong? :twisted:

 

[Hemi300c]

I would love to be a fly on the wall if they ever discuss this issue.

It's good that he is starting to think like a human and not like the rest of them but lets see how Zuma shuts him up or he may decide to shut himself up and not shoot his own foot.

But 1 thing 4 sure 2012 is going to be a interesting political battle and the ANCYL is going to cause disruptions and hopefully a great divide in the party which "has no counterparts"

Sit back and watch.

 

[USZA]

So I'm guessing his rant was just about him getting well paid by raping poor union members, about how he rips them off and getting rich off their money? Am I right or wrong? :twisted:

Right and wrong.

Right, because he's making the right noises and saying the right things.

Wrong, because he's the wrong person saying it as he himself is guilty of the same.

 

[Sinbad]

Why doesn't he lead the way? He could start setting an example - and then he'd have the advantage of moral high ground, when currently he's in the bottom of the long-drop pit with the rest of them.

 

[USZA]

Why doesn't he lead the way? He could start setting an example - and then he'd have the advantage of moral high ground, when currently he's in the bottom of the long-drop pit with the rest of them.

What you said, everyone's been saying.