Three minutes later at 10.24, the man stood up, produced R10 to pay for the beer, and left without a word. He had allegedly not even glanced towards the destroyed Golf before heading in the opposite direction. Vavi said government, labour, business and the wider community, needed to formulate a cohesive approach to solving the country's chronic unemployment, many consider to be at crisis proportions. Joblessness is currently reported to affect a third of South Africa's 15m-strong economically active population. But Vavi's remarks marked another stab in the government's side following a series of recent attacks by labour on the state's macro-economic policies, particularly GEAR, which they say is bleeding jobs through privatisation and tighter spending.
Nobody recognises that charitable act.
From 1964 to 1979, Smith used rearguard action to maintain white minority rule in the country, declaring unilateral independence from Britain and fighting a guerrilla war against factions of the majority black population. Zimbabwe became independent in 1980. Mugabe, who spent 11 years in prison under the white-led Rhodesian regime, has previously expressed regret over not having taken more radical measures against Smith. We do not have any duty or moral principle on the strength of which we pay compensation. We shall take the land.