Cosatu joins SACP in calling on ‘negligent’ Zuma to resign
Cosatu has placed the blame for Standard & Poor’s downgrade of South Africaâs sovereign rating to junk status on President Jacob Zuma
Cosatu has placed the blame for Standard & Poor’s downgrade of South Africaâs sovereign rating to junk status on President Jacob Zuma
Vavi likens the episode to the supposedly unsinkable Titanic – describing it as the ANC hitting “a massive democratic iceberg in the form of the workers movement.” Could this be the last straw for a deeply complicit President.
International comparisons, such as the Economic Freedom of the World Report, show that more economic freedom (less government control) is the only way to achieve enduring prosperity and justice.
Cosatu president Sdumo Dlamini has confirmed that union leadership met the Gupta family last week, saying the family had assured them they were not leaving South Africa but had merely attended a family wedding.
What more will it take to spark the ANC top structure into the now inevitable move of dumping their deeply compromised leader Jacob Zuma?
In a yearâs time, the existing organised labour scene may look quite different, and the transitional process will be speeded up by the establishment of a new, socialistically founded trade union federation, headed by Zwelinzima Vavi.
Although there must be serious concerns about his views on how to create a flourishing economy, there is no questioning the integrity, courage and leadership bona fides of former Cosatu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi.
A senior union official has claimed education department officials are the corrupt ones, not Sadtu.
Parliament has paid out bonuses to National Education Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) members.
Itâs high time we all follow Gideon Du Plessisâ example and challenge often trotted out statements that, in South Africa, âblacksâ still earn less than âwhitesâ. First, because it is racist. But more so, as the examples he cites show, because it is false.