Honorable Justice COSATU presiding.

One expects trade unions to be fucking dumb. Afterall, these are the same people who believe that making it harder to employ people is going to boost employment. But the latest round of contradictions emanating from the political arena's biggest turd fest had even seasoned COSATU watchers retching.

Four months ago, COSATU went to great lengths to ensure that Comrade Zuma got a fair trial before being proclaimed guilty. We do, afterall, live in a country where accused ( in this case, clearly guilty) persons are innocent until a court of law has found that they are thieving fuckers.

Fastforward to today, and COSATU has waded into the fray surrounding the Vereeniging Dry Cleaners trial. For those of you who have not read about this trial, three white business people in are accused of conspiring with two of their black workers to murder two other (black) workers. Nothing complicated, up to this point- the trial should be allowed to proceed and if the prosecution can lead the neccessary evidence, the guilty parties should be punished.

COSATU, despite clamouring to remind all and sundry that Jacob is not to be called a money grabbing son-of-a-bitch, until the courts have actually shown this to be true, insists that the Vereeniging accused should be denied bail. What about their rights to innocence in the eyes of the law? Do these rights apply only to blacks? What sort of transparently racist message is COSATU sending by supporting JZ and harresing the Vereeniging accused?

The sooner COSATU realises it is NOT a government or a court of law, the better for us all. Let the law run its course and concentrate on what you do best- driving away investment and destroying jobs.