COSATU general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has left the labour federations' Central Executive Committee little choice but to fire him at a special meeting today. Vavi told a news conference in Johannesburg yesterday that he will not resign and will reclaim the federation. Vavi says he will boycott the meeting as a deliberate act of defiance. On the Forum at eight this morning we ask; should Cosatu's General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi walk away from labour the Federation Cosatu? We speak to Zwelinzima Vavi the General Secretary of Cosatu Political Analyst and Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at Rhodes University and the University of Johannesburg Steven Friedman...