A group calling itself Springbok Supporters for Transformation plans to start a radical programme of mass action that will include the withdrawal of funding and sponsorships for the national team. Lead by trade federation Cosatu, they have vowed that should the Springbok World Cup squad announcement on Friday fail to[…]
A labour dispute must never turn to bloodshed, Cosatu said as it remembered the events of Marikana on the shooting’s anniversary on Sunday. “The Congress of South African Trade Unions remembers the loss of lives suffered by South Africa before, during and after the Marikana tragedy three years ago,” it[…]
The judiciary has become a threat to South Africa’s democracy, Cosatu president S’dumo Dlamini said on Tuesday evening. “We have seen how our hard won advances secured since the democratic breakthrough continue to face threats from our own judiciary which zigzags from making progressive rulings which asserts the new democratic[…]
Cosatu has laid a charge of criminal negligence against Western Cape Premier Helen Zille over an accident at a school in Delft that left two pupils injured. Congress of SA Trade Unions provincial secretary Tony Ehrenreich said the federation visited the Sunray Primary School on Friday, following an accident earlier this[…]
The Manenberg Safety Forum believes the Western Cape Governments’ plans to improve Manenberg is not in the favour of the local community but rather a gimmick in the lead up to the 2016 elections. The forum’s Rugshanda Pascoe says that the organisation’s stance has always been that the local government[…]
The leadership to take the helm of Cosatu in the Western Cape for the next three years has been elected. Mogwase Tsobane was on Sunday announced as chairperson, Andile Ngqaneka as deputy chairperson, Ingrid Leukes as treasurer and Tony Ehrenreich as secretary. The trade union federation held its provincial congress over[…]
The Cosatu that was founded in 1985 is falling apart and splinter unions are growing as a result, former General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said on Saturday. “The reality we are facing is that the Cosatu as we know it before is being fragmented. Splinter unions are springing up, as we’ve[…]
Cosatu President Sdumo Dlamini will be remembered for destroying the Cosatu federation, National Union of Metalworkers of SA Secretary General Irvin Jim said on Saturday. “At the Cosatu special national congress, Sdumo attacked us publicly, presenting us as a slave master. He called on unions to liberate them from Numsa,”[…]
Cosatu’s special national congress adjourned late on Monday night after adopting only the credentials and the agenda. This was after more than nine hours of heated debates among delegates who differed on a number of issues. “Within the circumstances we were in, it was crucial that we needed to vote[…]
While Cosatu has made it clear it has no intentions of allowing a debate or discussion about the reinstatement of Numsa or its former general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi, Numsa was hopeful that other unions affiliated to Cosatu would be powerful enough to see them reinstated into the trade union federation.[…]
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