Expelled Cosatu general-secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi, says South Africans are being led into the path of a failed state and ultimately a banana republic.
In a fiery address to hundreds of workers in Port Elizabeth last night, Vavi said that mass democratic formations and even democratic institutions have been plunged into crisis.
He referred to the implosion of Cosatu, the collapse of civil society organisations as well as women’s and youth organisations.
Vavi said that state institutions that should hold the leadership accountable in line with the Constitution of the country are also going through the same turmoil.
"The SABC blunted out the NPA. Eskom is down, Crime Intelligence down, SAA down this is a societal crisis. We are creating a new kind of capitalist system which is going to be based on progress and primitive articulation centered around the looting and corruption that is running out of hand everywhere is society. What is happening is that we are being led into the path of a failed State and a path of a banana republic" he said.
Meanwhile, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe says irreparable damage has been done to the Congress of SA Trade Unions.
Seven unions, who are supporting expelled general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi and the National Union of Metalworkers of SA, had been boycotting Cosatu's central executive committee meetings, the trade union federation's highest decision-making body.
Mantashe says the ANC needs to talk to these unions and ask them to rescue what is left of Cosatu.
Vavi was expelled from Cosatu last month, which he says was unfair and illegal.
