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• Manuel and the Alliance

  
  Africa — Authority: 492
  When Jacob Zuma first rose to the South African presidency many feared that among the changes he would implement would be to reduce the role of Trevor Manuel. Instead Manuel, long considered among the very best, most effective South African politicians, seems to have had his role augmented. Finance Minister from 1996 ...
  3 days ago

• Jacob Zuma on plans for economic transformation – full text

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 428
  This from President Jacob Zuma’s weekly online newsletter on the even of the Alliance Summit:The Tripartite Alliance meets in Kempton Park from today until Sunday 15 November, to take stock of progress made since the 52nd ANC National Conference in Polokwane, and also since the elections in April 2009.We committed ...
  3 days ago

• COSATU threatens action against Zimpapers

  
  The Zimbabwe Times — Authority: 144
  By Ntando Ncube JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s labour movement COSATU and civil rights pressure group People Against Suppression, Suffering and Oppression (Passop) on Wednesday made a public appeal to insurance giant, Old Mutual, to withdraw its stake-hold in Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Ltd. If Old Mutual ignores ...
  5 days ago

• Vavi’s salary: 100 percent increase

  
  Dispatch Now 24/7 — Authority: 486
  Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi’s salary has doubled this year to R500,000 a year, a newspaper reported.“My salary doubled because we were losing all the policy capacity in the federation,” said Vavi.“The economists and accountants were all gone, because if you keep the salary at R250,000, it means ...
  1 week ago

• Vavi awards himself 100% increase, then moans about the wage gap!

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 428
  WHAT a hypocrite on stilts.On the same day that Cosatu Secretary General Zwelinzima Vavi was quoted moaning about the wage gap comes news that he enjoyed a 100% salary increase this year – to R500 000. It is not clear whether or not this includes perks.That while his employees enjoyed a 15% increase. So the ...
  1 week ago

• South Africa: Lessons from the clothing workers strike in South Africa

  
  redrave — Authority: 113
  Shaheed Mahomed 1 November 2009 in News , South Africa 55,000 clothing workers in South Africa went on strike for 10 days in September this year. At a time other workers were demanding 15 percent wage increases and winning 13 percent, the leadership of the SA Clothing and Textile ...
  2 weeks ago

• Zuma clarifies ANC alliance with unions and SACP – full text

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 428
  Nothing to fear from vigorous debateIn recent days and weeks, our newspapers and airwaves have been filled with all manner of divergent views on a whole range of subjects. In some instances, the exchanges have gotten very heated, whether about racism at the University of the Free State or the amount of force police ...
  2 weeks ago

• South Africa: ANC budget serves imperialism

  
  redrave — Authority: 113
  The Medium Term Budget speech by new Finance Minister, Gordhan, confirms that the ANC government is the agent of imperialism in South Africa. At a time when the monopolies are repatriating over R200 bn per annum in profits from plundering the working class in South Africa, this shameless regime puts the burden ...
  2 weeks ago

• Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

  
  Africa — Authority: 492
  Is the African National Congress’ internal reckoning coming? I have for years argued that the ANC’s tripartite coalition of the ANC itself, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), and the South African Communist Party (SACP) is, in the long run, untenable. The ANC is a party of the left and always, to ...
  2 weeks ago

• So, what exactly does Cosatu want the ANC to become?

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 428
  It’s all here in this Cosatu resolution from its recent conference. Interesting.1-2 Advancing working-class hegemony within the ANCThis Ninth National Congress notes:1. The current class composition of the structures of the ANC.2. That COSATU, as a component of the working class, has a class interest in the policy ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cosatu condemns re-grouping of AWB

  
  Dispatch Now 24/7 — Authority: 486
  The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) in North West on Monday “strongly” condemned the re-grouping of the right-wing group Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB).“The Republic of South Africa belongs to all of us, not the few of the AWB and what belongs to them is only their families,” said provincial secretary ...
  4 weeks ago

• Where is President Zuma?

  
  I Luv SA — Authority: 498
  A lot of what Pierre De Vos had to say in this post, in which he criticised the present status of government, made sense. Its just a pity he had to take a swipe at Helen Zille for no apparent reason. Well, no reason that was relevant to the topic anyway. He came across as afraid of being labelled a racist ...
  5 weeks ago

• Sunday Live: Battle for control of SA economy

  
  Times LIVE Multimedia — Authority: 147
  Sunday Times editor in chief Mondli Makhanya talks about how president Jacob Zuma is battling to contain a bitter fight that has erupted between cabinet members and trade unions over the control of the country’s economy.
  6 weeks ago

• SOUTH AFRICA: FORWARD TO THE GENERAL STRIKE!

  
  redrave — Authority: 113
  FORWARD TO A GENERAL STRIKE FOR REAL WAGE INCREASES, JOBS, FOOD, HOUSES FOR ALL! WE NEED AN EMERGENCY WORKERS’ PLAN! Today the clothing workers and their unions stand on the point of being destroyed by the capitalists. These attacks are becoming generalised across all sectors, employed and unemployed. In 1994, ...
  8 weeks ago

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