The names of "political imbeciles" who kicked out former union president Willie Madisha will be revealed when he goes to the equality court to fight his dismissal.
Madisha was expelled by the SA Democratic Teachers Union(Sadtu) this week for indirectly criticising ANC president Jacob Zuma before the ruling party's contentious conference last year.
Sadtu on Wednesday emphasised that the union "has done everything in its power to ensure that Comrade Willy Madisha was given a fair disciplinary hearing with every opportunity to state his side of the case".
However, the former unionist went for his former comrades.
"There are political imbeciles who can't pronounce their own names but when they go to sleep they are able to say Willie Madisha," he told reporters on Wednesday.
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Madisha argued that he was politically victimised and he could prove it.
"Unlike some politicians who make this claim and have no evidence to back it up," he said, in an apparent reference to Zuma.
Zuma has argued that his corruption case was part of a wider political conspiracy.
Madisha said he was fighting against the injustice of his persecution for the workers who were at risk of being abused by power hungry union bosses.
"I am going to the equality court to make sure that, with the last cent I have, I correct this thing."
Madisha was also dismissed as Cosatu president and as a member of the SA Communist Party after he alleged that SACP leader Blade Nzimande had embezzled a R500 000 party donation.
He said he would be staking all his meagre resources to defend his integrity at the courts.
"I have no backers, only a few pension policies which I will be cashing in to fund my legal challenge."
He joked that he had to wait for a taxi to take him to a Press conference after Sadtu repossessed its car, which was why he was late.
Sadtu announced on Tuesday that Madisha would be "stripped" of his union presidency and all other roles he played within the organisation including his chairmanship of the sub council of educators.
"They (union) say we dismiss you because you don't want Jacob Zuma. It is not true," he said.
He argued that he supported Zuma as the leader of the ANC and Mbeki as the country's president.
"I support them both," he said.
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This article was originally published on page 2 of Pretoria News on July 31, 2008
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