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On Friday, November 7, 2014, the metalworkers’ union (340,000 members), NUMSA, was expelled from the national trade union federation, COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Unions) by 33 votes to 24 on the national executive committee. This is a significant event. First, because this union (...)
Democratic Left Front (DLF)
NUMSA’s Expulsion from COSATU - A sad day - a travesty of Justice
Dear Comrades and friends of the workers movement in South Africa
It is a terribly sad day. NUMSA was expelled in the early hours of this morning. For the record the vote was 33 to 24. As Andrew (...)
This speech was made by Irvin Jim, National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) General secretary to the the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) Central Executive Committee (EC) on 7 November 2014, before his union was expelled from the confederation. After meeting (...)
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) is set to take legal action to force the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) to hold fresh elections after months of bitter infighting within the ranks of the African National Congress’s (ANC’s) labour ally.
Numsa is on (...)
We are publishing this is very interesting and important statement on 27 October from NUMSA, COSATU’s biggest affiliate. It is probable that on 7 November NUMSA will be expelled from COSATU and that this will precipitate a re-organisation of the trade union movement and accelerate the process (...)
Around 30 guests from across the globe and 120 shop stewards from the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) met from August 7-10 in Johannesburg to discuss the prospects and challenges of building a new, left political alternative to the ruling African National Congress (ANC), (...)
On August 6, three shop stewards of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) were assassinated in their Durban home. Another NUMSA member was wounded and is still being treated. The three killed were: Njabulo Ndebele (Regional Branch Secretary) Sibonelo “John-John” Ntuli (...)
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has confirmed its reinstated general secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi, will be on the campaign trail in the run-up to the elections, encouraging people to vote for the ANC.
Vavi returned to his post after being suspended for eight months, during (...)
AFRICAN National Congress (ANC) deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday persuaded leaders in the warring Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) to cease hostilities for a month to allow the party to facilitate a lasting truce.
As a result of the intervention, the “ceasefire” in (...)
Statement from the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), March 2, 2014.
“People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all (...)
Numsa Special National Congress
December 17 to 20, 2013
Declaration
1. Introduction
Numsa’s Special National Congress convened from December 17 to December 20, 2013. It was attended by 1,200 delegates representing 338,000 metalworkers from 50 Locals throughout the provinces of South (...)
"People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises. Champions of reforms (...)
15 October 2013, Posted in Events, NUMSA Special Congress, Numsa special national congress Divisions in Cosatu will be top of the agenda in Numsa’s special congress to be held at Birchwood hotel.
Numsa special congress in December will address the following issues:
• The challenges (...)
Yesterday the 15th of August 2013, COSATU National Office Bearers (NOBs) held a historic press conference to announce that I have been placed on special leave pending an investigation and disciplinary action.
Today I am releasing the letter my lawyers wrote to COSATU for the attention of (...)
As expected the COSATU Central Executive Committee took a decision to suspend Vavi, its general secretary. An internal probe will now sit and in all likelihood find him guilty of bringing COSATU into disrepute and he will be permanently removed from the leadership of COSATU.
Women’s abuse is (...)
Interview with Dirk Hartford, the first head of COSATU media and editor of COSATU News in the 1980’s, about the implications of the current tensions in COSATU.
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Amandla!: What do you make of what is happening in COSATU now with the allegations against its General (...)
This feature of Amandla! lays bare the conflict unfolding in COSATU.
Tensions in SA’s biggest labour movement play themselves out over the failure of the Polokwane project. The ANC’s 2007 Polokwane Conference, which adopted a host of progressive policies, was supposed to usher in the (...)
COSATU is in the midst of the biggest crisis in its 27-year history. This crisis has arisen from an SACP-driven attempt to oust democratically elected COSATU General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi, under the guise of corruption charges. The conflict’s roots are in longstanding political (...)
How ironic that the attack on COSATU comes from within. Ironic, but not unexpected. Supporters of the Zuma faction in COSATU want to get rid of Vavi as he is too independent-minded and too critical of Zuma and the government.
Vavi has been outspoken about government’s failure to implement (...)
COSATU CEC Political Discussion Paper September 2010
The Alliance at a Crossroads- the battle against a predatory elite and political paralysis
1. Introduction
1.1 This political discussion paper takes stock of developments since the ANC’s historic 52nd Conference at Polokwane. It (...)
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