CWU condemns President Jacob Zuma’s privacy invasion!
04 February 2010
The Communications Workers Union (CWU) condemns the publication of President Jacob Zuma’s alleged love-child with Dr Irvin Khoza’s daughter and the opportunistic rantings by the opposition parties.
The self-anointed priests of morality and champions of the HIV/AIDS struggle are calling on President Zuma to resign alleging he is a threat to woman and a betrayal to the battle against the pandemic. This is worse form of opportunism and jealousy. The struggle against HIV/AIDS will not be won through President Zuma’s private life and relationships.
This puritanical witch hunt against President Zuma waged by the bourgeois media and the opposition is a typical modern day version of Christian fundamentalist crusades against ‘sin’. This witch hunt directed towards President Zuma seeks to reinforce the idea in the public sphere that it is morally wrong for either President Zuma or woman to be sexually intimate and impregnate each other outside the institution of marriage.
President Zuma’s right to privacy should be respected. Otherwise the bourgeois media’s owners and opposition party leaders should publicly declare their partners and throng of children for public opinion or judgment. What happens in President Zuma’s private life is none of our business including the State. The Media’s obsession and interference at President Zuma’s private life aims at re-engineering society to conform to the capitalist sex ‘norm’ of one man and one woman for life, thus denying the complexity of human sexuality.
The continued interference in President Zuma’s or any citizen’s private life will not alter the fact that man or woman develops sexual attractions, whether married or unmarried. The working class and the poor should not allow the State and the capitalist newspapers to invade the private life of individuals which is a gross violation of privacy. We should demand with our fists clinched high that the media stays out of the bedroom.
Contact:
Matankana Mothapo
(Communication Workers Union - National Spokesperson)
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