{"id":8027,"date":"2013-07-29T10:52:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T10:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8027"},"modified":"2013-07-29T11:06:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T11:06:01","slug":"num-would-not-comment-on-vavi-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8027","title":{"rendered":"NUM would not comment on Vavi rape allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3330\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3330\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/zumavavi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3330\" alt=\"Vavi (left) with Zuma\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/zumavavi-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/zumavavi-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/zumavavi-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/zumavavi.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vavi (left) with Zuma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) would not comment on rape allegations against Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi until it heard from the trade union federation, it said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It will be irresponsible to make statements at this stage,&#8221; NUM general secretary Frans Baleni told reporters in Johannesburg after the union&#8217;s national executive committee meeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We do not want to engage on details about this matter until it is formally brought to us,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vavi has admitted to having an extramarital affair with a married woman who was employed by the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) and claimed she later tried to extort R2 million from him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He denied raping her, and said the sex was consensual.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, she brought a complaint of sexual harassment against him. An internal grievance proceeding was being held on Monday morning<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Baleni said the union would wait for internal processes regarding the matter to take place. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) would not comment on rape allegations against Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi until it heard from the trade union federation, it said on Monday. &#8220;It will be irresponsible to make statements at this stage,&#8221; NUM general secretary Frans Baleni told reporters in Johannesburg after the union&#8217;s national executive committee &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8027\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NUM would not comment on Vavi rape allegations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[76,773,771,36,1204],"class_list":["post-8027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-cosatu","tag-frans-baleni","tag-num","tag-rape","tag-zwelinzima-vavi"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/zumavavi.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8029,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027\/revisions\/8029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}