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ZCTU infighting filters to affiliate unions
Stephen Chadenga, NewsDay
June 15, 2012

http://www.newsday.co.zw/article/2012-06-15-zctu-infighting-filters-to-affiliate-unions/

The fight for control of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has filtered down to affiliate bodies with the shoe industry literally splitting following the formation of a splinter representative body.

A war of words has erupted between the president of the Zimbabwe Leather Shoe and Allied Workers' Union (ZLSAWU) and spokesperson of the newly-formed splinter union, the Zimbabwe Footwear Tanning and Allied Workers' Union (ZFTAWU). In an interview with NewsDay yesterday, ZLSAWU president Lloyd Ndaba accused ZFTAWU spokesperson Martin Tazvivinga of fighting his organisation since early 2001 after he lost an election. He accused him of aligning with ZCTU president George Nkiwane.

Ndaba said ZFTAWU was a bogus union as it was not registered.

"Tazvivinga was once ZLSAWU branch secretary from the late 90s, but when he lost an election in early 2001, he started fighting the union. After his defeat in that election, he formed a splinter workers' committee and in 2003 started collecting funds from union members. The man is bitter and the union (ZFTWAU) he is championing is fake, unregistered and a bogus one," Ndaba said.

Ndaba said: "He is influencing members to resign from ZLSAWU, lying that we are mismanaging funds. Where is his evidence? He should not personalise issues in the Press. He is just trying to create legitimacy in the Nkiwane ZCTU faction by forming this splinter union."

But Tazvivinga maintained that the ZLSAWU leadership had failed to circulate audited reports of accounts for the last 25 years.

"They have never circulated audited reports to members for the last 25 years and they have been mismanaging funds," Tazvivinga said.

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