Zwelinzima Vavi
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There can be no greater honour than to serve the working class. If you can't handle the truth don't follow me. Retweeting is not an endorsement
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Look carefully at these pictures. On 30 June there will be no march to the mansions. There will be no march to the luxury estates. There will be no march to the golf courses. There will be no march to the beachfront suburbs. Migrants — documented or undocumented — living in those wealthy suburbs have nothing to fear. Nobody will be knocking on their gates. Nobody will be dragging them from their homes. Nobody will be demanding to see their papers. The rich will sleep peacefully on 29 June. They will sleep peacefully on 30 June. And they will wake up on 1 July exactly as they did before. But in the townships and informal settlements there will be fear. The targets will not be the rich. The targets will be the poorest of the poor. The migrant living in a shack. The refugee running a spaza shop. The domestic worker. The gardener. The security guard. The construction worker. The unemployed young person trying to survive. And when it is all over: No jobs will have been created. No factory will have reopened. No mine will have reopened. No pothole will have been repaired. No school still using pit toilets will have been fixed. No hospital will have been repaired. No clinic will have received more nurses. No municipality will suddenly work. No family will escape poverty. No inequality will disappear. The rich will remain rich. The poor will remain poor. And once again, the victims will be people living in shacks while those living behind high walls, electric fences and private security watch from a safe distance. The anger is real. The unemployment is real. The poverty is real. The inequality is real. But the targets are wrong. The poor are being mobilised against the poor while the real causes of the crisis remain untouched.
Zwelinzima Vavi110,055 Aufrufe • vor 23 Tagen
My sincere apologies in advance to Tsonga/Shangaan-speaking workers whose nationality is being abused in the video. This moment reinforces the need to strengthen our resolve and uphold our principles against mob justice, street justice, regionalism, and xenophobia
Zwelinzima Vavi278,589 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
Another world exists parallel to the planet we live on
Zwelinzima Vavi331,480 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
Nelson Mandela, one of the few not afraid to speak out against US imperialism
Zwelinzima Vavi391,183 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
We warned about this ticking time bomb years ago. We were dismissed as alarmists and populists. Now chickens are coming back to roost! More than three decades into democracy, the face of poverty, unemployment, inequality, hunger, landlessness, drug addiction, alcohol abuse and teenage pregnancy remains overwhelmingly black. The deep social and economic crisis confronting millions of working-class and poor communities has not disappeared simply because it is no longer fashionable to talk about it. When a society is pushed to breaking point, no one can predict or control the direction that anger will take. If the real causes of the crisis are not confronted, people will look for scapegoats. In one place migrants will be blamed. In another, people from different provinces will be targeted. Elsewhere, women, gays and lesbians, or other vulnerable groups will become the focus of frustration and resentment. History teaches us that when poverty, unemployment and inequality are allowed to deepen, and when progressive forces fail to provide leadership and solutions, division, hatred and social instability fill the vacuum. The challenge is to unite the victims of the crisis against its root causes!
Zwelinzima Vavi44,570 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
So both they and South Africans must be beaten up in the streets
Zwelinzima Vavi60,962 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
The stench from Pretoria is unbearable! The Madlanga Commission has ripped open the rot at the heart of our justice system — and the whole country is choking. Yes, the accused still have the right to defend themselves, but goodness, what we’ve heard already is enough to make a nation sick. This is not just scandal — it’s a full-blown crisis of integrity. South Africa cannot cope with this level of betrayal! Kubi!!
Zwelinzima Vavi217,221 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten
