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ANCYL blasts Malema, Vavi over anti-corruption march

Zwelinzima Vavi

Zwelinzima Vavi

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1st October 2015

By: African News Agency

  

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Former Congress of South Africa Trade Union (Cosatu) secretary Zwelinzima Vavi and Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema are corrupt, and should not spearhead anti-corruption campaigns, the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) said on Thursday.

“We are deeply concerned with people who led the the anti-corruption march, Zwelinzima Vavi has no right to claim to be a saint whilst not so long he behaved in a corrupt manner and degraded and brought disrepute to Cosatu when he had sex with a junior employee at Cosatu house,” said secretary Njabulo Nzuza.

Nzuza was addressing journalists at a briefing in Pretoria. Earlier on Thursday, he spoke out against e-tolls and said the Youth League wanted the ANC to adopt a new policy and scrap the e-tolls.

Nzuza accused Malema of misappropriating his party’s funds, and added that Malema had no right “to ride a high horse of being custodians of all that is correct”.

Vavi was expelled from Cosatu this year for bringing the trade union federation into disrepute.

Civil organisations, religious leaders , politicians and labour unions marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Wednesday to demand that government do more to stamp out corruption.

Those who led the march included Vavi, Malema, United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa, National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa’s Irvin Jim and Anglican Bishop Joe Seoka.

Nzuza said the march was a publicity stunt.

“The march was nothing but a publicity stunt to try and portray the ANC as a corrupt organisation. The ANC is not corrupt…it is an organisation committed to the creation of the national democratic society”.

Edited by African News Agency

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