THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) said it is overjoyed that Public Enterprises Minister, Pravin Gordhan has decided to retire from politics.
The union described Gordhan as the worst minister since the advent of democracy and said it can't wait for him to leave.
“In fact, as Numsa, we volunteer to help him pack his bags. It's an absolute pity that he can't leave sooner. Just like the hit song by Miley Cyrus, Gordhan came in like a wrecking ball in 2018 and has wrecked every single State-Owned Entity (SOE) that he touched,” said Numsa’s General Secretary, Irvin Jim.
The union said in their previous statement that Gordhan has a ‘deadly Midas touch’ because everywhere he goes, SOE’s collapse, and workers suffer.
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“He claimed he was turning around the SOEs unfortunately, most of them are in ICU or have died because of his involvement. It's a painful irony that Gordhan once served as the South African Communist Party Central Committee's member because his actions have been a relentless and brutal attack on workers and their families.
“His values are the opposite of Communism and its noble ideals, which are to advance and improve the lives of the working class. Gordhan is entirely self-serving and is the worst performing minister ever to hold the Public Enterprises minister potfolio,” he said.
Jim added that as much as they want Gordhan to leave, they also demand accountability and he cannot be allowed to get away with selling SAA for far less than its value.
He said workers at SAA wanted to use their pensions to invest in the airline so that they could be shareholders, but he denied them that opportunity.
“Instead, he engineered the deal so that it can be sold to people handpicked by him, for less than a R100! Most of the workers who were retrenched remain unemployed.
“Gordhan's sins mustn't go unpunished. We demand justice, on behalf of the working class, which has suffered immeasurably under his tenure,” Jim said.
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