Recent incident of COSATU being barred from entering Zimbabwe for a so-called fact finding mission and also meeting with their trade union counterpart, has reference. COSATU is a member of the tripartite alliance involving ANC and SACP. When the State President nominates his Cabinet Ministers he chooses from those three organisations. One would say that the Government of South Africa is led by the ANC and its alliance partners.

Be that as it may, the crux of the matter in this discussion is that COSATU is portraying an image of philanthropism, when it raised concern that people of Zimbabwe are being downtrodden, illtreated and misgoverned by the Government of Zimbabwe.It sounds reasonable but also mindboggling because that spirit of philanthropism is not evenly distributed to, shall I say, all humanity and therefore exhibit some form of double-standard and hypocracy. It is not evenly distributed in the sense that concern that is being raised by COSATU on the ill-treatment of the workers and all the people of Zimbabwe is not reflective of the love of the people of their own country SOUTH AFRICA, because all about ethnicity and violation of human rights is not well in our country but no similar concern is being raised by COSATU,in this instance.

In the context of Christian Religion, in the book of MATTHEW 7:3-5, the following is written in this connection: "3Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
4How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye; when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?
5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

The above verses clearly outline the gist of the message that we would like to reach those concerned. COSATU is trying to pool wool over the eyes of those who are politically,socially and culturally shortsighted because such purpotted intervention in Zimbabwean issues is not being done out of love but out of hidden political agenda.

Source: DPF