Prominent labour
movement leader Zwelinzima Vavi has been admitted to hospital after contracting
Covid-19.
This was confirmed by Vavi's long-time trade union comrade
Irvin Jim on social media on Sunday evening.
“Comrades, friends, in the recent past all of us had to
contend, in NUMSA, SAFTU, SRWP, UF with sad news that one of our own leaders Zv
(Vavi) tested positive with this notorious global epidemic (Covid-19). He is
admitted, we wish him victory and his family against these notorious virus
[sic]," Jim, the secretary-general of National Union of Metalworkers,
posted on Twitter.
The revelation came after Vavi, the general secretary of SA
Federation of Trade Unions, announced on Thursday that he had tested positive
for the highly infectious coronavirus. The firebrand leader on Saturday
released a video of himself in which he was sweating heavily.
“Corola have [sic] finally met its match, stands no chance,
none whatsoever. It's going to be defeated. It's going to be chased out of this
body. Is going to die outside. We are made of a sterner stuff and we will be
the last to stand. It will fall. It must fall. It will fall,” said Vavi.
While some Twitter users wished Vavi a speedy recovery and
others promised to pray for him, one took Jim to task for having “took time to
release the statement”.
“Vavi has been admitted this evening I was directly
involved and aware about the process him and his family deserve privacy and I
talk only when it’s necessary keep your politics of time to yourself we wish
him speed recovery,” Jim responded. Times
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