Cosatu president Sdumo Dlamini says divisions within the federation will not result in a split. This after the National Union of Metalworkers ( Numsa) launched a scathing attack on Dlamini, accusing him of factionalism.

Numsa also wants the federations’s Special Central Executive Committee(CEC) meeting scheduled for Wednesday to be cancelled. The CEC has been called to discuss the recent sex scandal involving Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi.

Dlamini says the organisation belongs to its members and it will sail through any difficulties it confronts as it grows.

“I have full confidence in Cosatu’s ability to deal with its own challenges and also to deal with the national challenges, it’s capable of growing and going through this one without a split,” explained Dlamini.

Numsa says the Cosatu president is fanning the flames.

“Part of his responsibilities is to ensure that Cosatu is united all the time, that Cosatu implements its resolutions. But it’s not to impose his views in the public about so and so having brought Cosatu into disrepute,” says Numsa president Cedric Gina

“We don’t take lightly the views from the Cosatu president who has had prior knowledge of the matter to say that Vavi has brought Cosatu into disrepute. So why are you calling the CEC then; what must the CEC do when you’ve already decided this is the outcome of the CEC,” added Gina.

Vavi has apologised to the nation for his part in a sex scandal. But Cosatu’s general secretary is still facing another probe.

He’s accused of maladministration in relation to the sale of the old Cosatu house. Some believe this is the battle before the war.

Analyst Tinyinko Maluleke says it’s soon going to be worse off than it is. He says that it’s best for Cosatu to seek a neutral body for the Vavi saga because no one is neutral.
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