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A COSATU organised protest in Cape Town calling for an end to state capture and for the prosecution of those involved in the administration of President Jacob Zuma. The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU or Cosatu) is a trade union federation in South Africa. It was founded in 1985 and is the largest of the country's three main ...
The Tripartite Alliance is an alliance between the African National Congress (ANC), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party (SACP). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The ANC holds a plurality in the South African parliament , while the SACP and COSATU have not contested any democratic election in South Africa.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) is the biggest single trade union in South Africa with more than 338,000 members, and prior to its expulsion on 8 November 2014, the largest affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the country's largest trade union federation.
The federation was formed at a congress over the weekend of 14–15 April 1979 in Hammanskraal and officially launched five days later on 20 April. [1] [2] Its roots lay in the unions which had emerged from the spontaneous 1973 strike wave by black workers in Durban and Pinetown as part of the "Durban Moment", [3] and which had since been part of the Trade Union Advisory Co-ordinating Council ...
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Jayendra Naidoo - World Economic Forum on Africa 2012. Jayaseelan Naidoo (born 1954) [1] is a South African politician and businessman who served as the founding general secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) from 1985 to 1993.
The United Democratic Front (UDF) was a South African popular front that existed from 1983 to 1991. The UDF comprised more than 400 public organizations including trade unions, students' unions, women's and parachurch organizations.
Cosatu's affiliates subsequently held talks aimed at negotiating Dlamini's departure and ensuring an uncontested set of elections. [36] On 18 September 2018, at Cosatu's 13th national congress in Midrand, Losi was elected unopposed as president, with Mike Shingange of Nehawu as first deputy and Louise Chipe of Saccawu as second deputy. [37]