By Celani Sikhakhane
The ANC KwaZulu-Natal secretary has come out guns blazing against Nehawu, accusing the union of pretending to hate white people while selling out farm workers to white farmers.
Bheki Mtolo was speaking on Saturday at the Elderly Winter’s Party held in Kokstad, KZN, by the ANC in honour of 67 minutes for Nelson Mandela International Day. Mtolo donated about 700 blankets to the elderly and thanked them for voting for the ANC on 29 May.
“That labour inspector who went to the farm to check the issue of minimum wages and met the white farmer without your knowledge and came back with a bribe of a sheep after which he or she would lie and claim that you are indeed given the minimum wage, it’s Nehawu. It is because they pretend to hate white people while colluding with them in the dark,” said Mtolo.
He also told the elders that those Home Affairs officials who don’t want to help them are actually from Nehawu.
Mtolo’s attack on Nehawu comes after the union’s meeting held at Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg last week, where the union rejected the ANC’s participation in the Government of National Unity. Nehawu members sang songs accusing the ANC of selling out to form an elite government with whites. President Mike Shingange claimed that they never voted for the GNU but for the ANC on May 29.
He said even during the campaign they supported the ANC because of policies aligned with workers.
Pictured above: KZN ANC Secretary Bheki Mtolo attacked Nehawu during the Elderly Winter’s Party in Kokstad.
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