EARTH SUMMIT: WITS PROTEST STOPPED ICFTA TRADE UNIONS FORUM MEETING ADDRESSED BY ZWELEINYAMA VAVI LUCIEN ROYER

Record ID: 881609

  • Title: EARTH SUMMIT: WITS PROTEST STOPPED ICFTA TRADE UNIONS FORUM MEETING ADDRESSED BY ZWELEINYAMA VAVI LUCIEN ROYER
  • Date: 25th August 2002
  • Summary: EARTH SUMMIT: WITS PROTEST STOPPED ICFTA TRADE UNIONS FORUM MEETING ADDRESSED BY ZWELEINYAMA VAVI LUCIEN ROYER
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  • City: Johannesburg
  • Country: South Africa
  • Reuters ID: 02AUG25R05
  • Story Text:EARTH SUMMIT: WITS STUDENT PROTEST STOPPED BY POLICE; ICFTA TRADE UNION FORUM MEETING

    WITS UNIVERSITY STUDENT PROTEST MARCH STOPPED BY POLICE IN JOHANNESBURG (24/08/2002)
    00.43.48 GREAT SHOT - AT NIGHT: LINE OF RIOT POLICE WITH BURNING CANDLES AT THEIR FEET - POLICE BLOCKING WAY OF PROTESTERS
    00.44.14 PROTESTERS SITTING IN STREET WITH BURNING CANDLES
    00.44.39 MCU WOMAN HOLDING BURNING CANDLE WEARING T-SHIRT READING END POVERTY LAND FOR THE LANDLESS!
    00.45.01 CU ***************** TOI-TOING AROUND BURNING PAPERS - QUITE GENERIC

    25/08/2002
    00.46.20 ICFTA (INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS) TRADE UNION FORUM: INSIDE HALL AT GARDEN HOTEL: VARIOUS SHOTS DELEGATES LISTENING
    00.51.53 DELEGATES SINGING FOLLOWING SPEAKER COSATU ??? ZWELEINYAMA VAVI ????? - EXPLAING WHAT THEY WERE SINGING ABOUT
    00.53.37 IN THE BACK OF YOUR MIND IT WAS ONLY 8 YEARS AGO THAT WE WON OUR LIBERATION AND FREEDOM FOLLOWING MANY YEARS OF STRUGGLE AGAINST THE APARTHEID SYSTEM - THIS CONFERENCE AGAIN SAYS TO REMIND ALL OF US IN TERMS OF THE DISTANCE THAT WE HAVE WALKED AS THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY TO INTEGRATE OURSELVES INTO THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY. WE ARE THEREFORE FEELING VERY PROUD THAT WE WELCOME YOU INTO A SOUTH AFRICA A FREE SOUTH AFRICA ON ITS WAY TO CREATING A NON-RACIAL NON-SEXIST DEMOCRACY, ON ITS WAY TO CREATING A BTTER LIFE FOR ALL THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY
    00.54.42 JOHANNESBURG COULD NOT HAVE BEEN A BETTER PLACE TO HOST THE WSSD CONFERENCE THAT IS GOING TO BE LOOKING AT THESE ISSUES OF DEVELOPMENT AND ALL THE CHALLENGES THAT GOES WITH IT BECAUSE JOHANNESBURG SYMBOLISES IN A TRUE SENSE OF THE WORD THE INEQUALITIES THAT EXIST IN SA AND THE INEQUALITIES THAT EXIST IN THE WORLD.
    00.55.15 IN THIS CITY AND COUNTRY THERE ARE TWO NATIONS - ONE NATION WELL TO DO RELATIVELY LIVING UNDER GOOD CONDIIONS ENJOYING MASSIVE WEALTH & RESOURCES AND LIVING IN THE SUBURBS; THERE'S ANOTHER NATION TRAPPED IN POVERTY TRAPPED IN UNEMPLOYMENT IN DISEASES HIV AIDS, TRAPPED IN CONDITIONS OF CRIME.
    00.56.34 DEMOCRACY IN SA HAS BROUGHT SOME CHANGES FOR THE BETTER TO ORDINARY PEOPLE. OVER THE PAST 8 YEARS THE PEOPLE OF SA & THE GOVERNMENT HAVE BEEN WORKING VERY HARD TO ENSURE THAT WE DO HAVE A MEANING TO THE DEMOCRACY THAT WE WON IN 1994 - MASSIVE PROGRESS - ACCESS TO CLEAN RUNNING WATER, ELECTRICITY, SOME LAND DISTRIBUTION HAS TAKEN PLACE; THERE'S BEEN IMPROVED ACCESS OTHER BASIC SERVICES LIKE HEALTH & EDUCATION; SOME EQUALISATION OF THE SOCIAL - SOME PROGRESS
    00.57.38 WE ARE STILL CHANGING THIS COUNTRY UNDER CERTAIN REALITIES - ECONOMY DOMINATED BY WHITE MINORITY & MINING FINACE COMPLEX; WE ARE CHANGING THE SITUATION - HOSTILE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL ENVIRONMENT
    00.58.39 TEXTBOOK - THOU SHALT PRIVITIOSE; THOU SHALT HAVE A VERY LOW DEFICIT; THOU SHALT HAVE A VERY LOW INFLATION TARGET; THE STATE SHALL MOVE OUT OF THE ECONOMY; THE MARKET SHALL BE GIVEN ITS UNQUALIFIED FREEDOM AND SO FORTH.
    00.58.57 THOSE TYPES OF RULES THAT ARE IMPOSED ON US BY THESE INSTITUTIONS SLOWS PROGRESS DOWN
    00.59.20 INEQUALITIES ARE NO LONGER BETWEEN BLACK & WHITE, BUT INCREASINGLY THE INEQUALITIES ARE TAKING THE CLASS DIMENSION - THAT OVER THE PAST 8 YEARS HAS BEEN GROWTH OF MIDDLE CLASS IN SA, A HANDFUL OF BLACKS ARE TODAY MULTI-MILLIONNAIRES - MAJORITY IS STILL BLACK BUT STILL TRAPPED IN POVERTY & UNEMPLOYMENT
    01.00.11 HOLDING THIS CONFERENCE 10 YEARS AFTER RIO - CERTAIN UNDERTAKINGS WERE MADE BY WORLD LEADERS; WE ALL KNOW THAT INSTEAD OF ADDRESSING THE CORE QUESTIONS, WE ARE IN A WORSE SITUATION THAT WE WERE 10 YEARS AGO ITO GLOBSL POVERTY ITO MORE PEOPLE EARNING LESS THAN A DOLLAR A DAY.
    01.00.56 WE ARE CHALLENGED THEREFORE TO MAKE SURE THE POLITICAL LEADERSHIP ACROSS THE GLOBE ARE TRUE TO WHATEVER THEY AGREE AS NECESSITY TO BE DONE FOR DEVLOPMENT.
    01.01.14 NEPAD AND FROM THE COSATU POINT OF VIEW HAVE HEARD DISCUSSIONS - BUT LET ME TAKE A MORE COSATU POSITION - REGARDING NEPAD THIS IS WHAT WE ARE SAYING: WE ARE SAYING THAT WE WELCOME THE INITIATIVE THAT HAVE BEEN TAKEN BY THE LEADERSHIP OF THE CONTINENT
    01.02.16 WE HAVE RAISED TWO MAIN CRITICISMS OF THE NEPAD DOCUMENT - IT WAS LARGELY DEVELOPED IN BOARDROOMS BY HEADS OF STATES WITHOUT ANY INVOLVEMENT OF ORDINARY PEOPLE INCLUDING THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT -
    01.03.04 YOU CANNOT SAVE SOMEBODY'S HEAD IN HIS ABSENCE! WE NEED TO BE INVOLVED AS ORDINARY PEOPLE - APPLAUSE - TO SHAPE THE AGENDA & TO INFLUENCE THE DOCUMENT
    01.03.32 SECOND ISSUE WE ARE WORRIED THAT THE ECONOMIC SECTIONS OF THE DOCUMENT DOES NOT MAKE A DECISIVE BREAKAWAY FROM FAILED POLICIES THAT WERE TRIED IN THE PAST IN THE AFRICAN CONTINENT AS WELL AS ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD
    01.04.17 IN NEPAD YOU WILL SEE THE SAME TEXT AGAIN BEING READ OUT VOLUNTARILY BY THE DOCUMENT - THE STATE SHALL MOVE OUT OF THE ECONOMY DESPITE THE RETORIC ABOUT ENSURING THAT THE STATE PLAY A DEVELOPMENTAL ROLE - THOU SHALT PRIVITASE
    01.05.07 WE SUPPORT THE OBJECTIVE NOT THE DOCUMENT ITSELF, WE SUPPORT WHAT IT SEEKS TO ACHIEVE - NOT THE MEANS IT EMPLOYS TO ACHIEVE ITS OBJECTIVE
    01.06.21 WIDE SHOTS
    01.08.02 LUCIEN ROYER TRADE UNION ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS - SPEAKING
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