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ActionSA Leader Herman Mashaba says he could not believe it when he watched on television how President Cyril Ramaphosa was booed and chased away by trade union members at a Workers Day event held in Rustenburg in the North West yesterday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWorkers in this country have been abused, lied to and betrayed by the ANC. You can lie to people for so long, but you can\u2019t really lie to people with their lived experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI could not believe it when the whole thing was unfolding. In fact, I was saying to my wife when the president was chased away that I could not believe it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Furious and fuming workers who gathered in Rustenburg told Ramaphosa to leave the rally because he had done nothing for them.<\/p>\n
Ramaphosa was about to deliver the keynote address when he was told to go.<\/p>\n
The workers wanted the president to address the challenges they were facing day-to-day, including lack of funds as well as being hired permanently.<\/p>\n
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) \u2013 the two biggest mine unions in South Africa \u2013 have demanded a pay increase of R1 000 per month over the next three years, similar to the amount Sibanye-Stillwater\u2019s rival Harmony Gold agreed to pay its workers last year.<\/p>\n
Reacting to the fiasco, Mashaba said the workers clearly demonstrated that they were tired of empty promises and Ramaphosa\u2019s \u201ccharm\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey demonstrated to him that they are gatvol. We are in a country where youth unemployment is sitting at 74 percent. This is unsustainable. We are a country with open borders where the home affairs are failing to protect borders in the sovereignty of South Africa. This thing is, unfortunately, affecting poor South Africans, and for people who have not worked in the last 10 to 20 years, you can\u2019t lie to them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Mashaba told that it would take a \u201cmiracle\u201d for the ANC to survive the 2024 elections.<\/p>\n
\u201cI cannot see the ANC surviving this one,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said this many times, and I am still repeating it – a prosperous South Africa and the ANC can\u2019t coexist in one space. One of them has to die, and it can\u2019t be South Africa,\u201d Mashaba said.<\/p>\n
He mentioned that when he was the mayor of Johannesburg, he found a divided union in office – one which he said was led by the ANC with no members. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey did everything to disrupt my term, sending their union members to come and disturb me, but there were some of the members who did not want to be involved in politics. They were there to ensure that the government must do what the government must do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The ActionSA leader made it clear that his party will not have a direct relationship with unions but will work with workers in certain instances in an effort to serve society.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Ramaphosa) promised people of Alexandra houses, and even today, there\u2019s not a single house that is built for the society of Alex. So he is actually playing the same trick, thinking that the workers are stupid and will think that he is going sort this matter. Why didn\u2019t he sort it out in time? He should have done it a long time ago,\u201d Mashaba said.<\/p>\n
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