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• Mugabes Non-Event Congress Starts

  
  Denford Magora's Latest Zimbabwe News Blog — Authority: 137
  This is urban Harare, the poor area of Epworth on the outskirts of the city. ZANU PF considered this a stronghold until last year, when the residents fled to the MDC-Tsvangirai. But Mugabes party is busy threatening and cajoling, in an effort to win back the constituency in the next election. The ZANU PF Congress ...
  21 hours ago

• S. Africa signals tougher Zimbabwe stance

  
  The Zimbabwe Times — Authority: 143
  President Jacob Zuma By Mxolisi Ncube JOHANNESBURG – President Jacob Zuma’s recent appointment of a team of envoys to monitor the unity government in neighboring Zimbabwe could mark a departure from the quiet diplomacy employed by South Africa under former President Thabo Mbeki. Zuma took over the mediation ...
  2 days ago

• South Africa Conveys a Message Back to Bongani Masuku

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 706
  Last winter, Bongani Masuku, International Relations Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), part of the “tripartite alliance” that currently governs South Africa and a leading proponent of a boycott campaign against Israel, decided he had something to say to his country’s Jews: We ...
  3 days ago

• ANC-Cosatu rift widens

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 510
  Just when South Africans thought that rifts within the alliance were a thing of the past post-Zuma versus Mbeki, along comes the next big one. This time it is Cosatu taking on what it considers to be the anti-left elements within the ANC.If regard is had to the Reuters article (click on link) [...]
  1 week ago

• Vavi: South Africa in crisis

  
  Times LIVE Multimedia — Authority: 146
  Cosatu wants a complete overhaul of the South African economy. Secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi says the South African economy is in a deep crisis and the focus should shift to more labour intensive sectors.
  2 weeks ago

• Jonathan Jansen and the four phases of controversy

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 126
  THE row over University of the Free State rector, Professor Jonathan Jansen has entered the “sub-radar” phase of its life, which is a good thing.Like all South African controversies, it has enjoyed — or endured, depending on how you see it — four basic phases.The first was the “pre-radar” phase during ...
  2 weeks ago

• Putting on Their Happy Faces

  
  Africa — Authority: 426
  For at least the time being the tensions within the ANC’s tripartite alliance over the establishment of the National Planning Commission (NPC) appear to have been assuaged . ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe assures us that all is well, and to prove it he had beside him at his announcement two nodding ...
  3 weeks ago

• Manuel and the Alliance

  
  Africa — Authority: 426
  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 weeks ago

• Jacob Zuma on plans for economic transformation – full text

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 126
  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 weeks ago

• COSATU threatens action against Zimpapers

  
  The Zimbabwe Times — Authority: 143
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Vavi’s salary: 100 percent increase

  
  Dispatch Now 24/7 — Authority: 146
  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 ...
  5 weeks ago

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

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 126
  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 ...
  5 weeks ago

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

  
  redrave — Authority: 111
  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 ...
  5 weeks ago

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

  
  The Wild Frontier — Authority: 126
  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 ...
  5 weeks ago

• South Africa: ANC budget serves imperialism

  
  redrave — Authority: 111
  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 ...
  6 weeks ago

• Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

  
  Africa — Authority: 426
  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 ...
  6 weeks ago

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