{"id":8047,"date":"2013-07-29T15:28:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T15:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8047"},"modified":"2013-07-29T15:28:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T15:28:23","slug":"vavi-pleased-at-withdrawal-of-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8047","title":{"rendered":"Vavi ‘pleased’ at withdrawal of complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zwelinzima Vavi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi is happy that a grievance against him has been withdrawn by his accuser, he said on Monday.<\/p>\n

“I am pleased that the grievance [hearing] has been finalised,” Vavi said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“I hope that we all can put this saga behind us so that we all can concentrate on the real issues of the day — ensuring that we have a vibrant trade union federation that promotes South Africa and the interests of workers.”<\/p>\n

Vavi admitted to having consensual sex with a married woman who was employed by the Congress of SA Trade Unions, and claimed she later tried to extort R2 million from him and alleged rape.<\/p>\n

He denied raping her, and said the sex was consensual.<\/p>\n

However, she brought a complaint of sexual harassment against him at work.<\/p>\n

The hearing commenced on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Vavi said the woman withdrew the complaint two hours into the hearing.<\/p>\n

He said he would consult with his lawyer to see if any further action could be taken regarding the complaint.<\/p>\n

“In the light of the extreme damage that has been done to my reputation, I will consult with my lawyers to consider any further actions about this matter.” – Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi is happy that a grievance against him has been withdrawn by his accuser, he said on Monday. “I am pleased that the grievance [hearing] has been finalised,” Vavi said in a statement. “I hope that we all can put this saga behind us so that we all can concentrate on … Continue reading “Vavi ‘pleased’ at withdrawal of complaint”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[4439,76,36,1204],"class_list":["post-8047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-consensual-sex","tag-cosatu","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\/2013\/07\/vavi_zwelinzima20130729.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8050,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions\/8050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}