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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 ...
In 1990, the ANC was unbanned, and some activists argued that the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) should merge into SACTU. However, by this point, COSATU had a far larger membership and profile than SACTU ever had. Instead, before the end of the year, the federation dissolved itself, with its remaining members transferring to ...
COSATU is a key partner in the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), a registered charity and political force working to educate and promote understanding about HIV/AIDS, and to prevent new infections, as well as push for greater access to antiretrovirals. COSATU passed a resolution in 1998 to campaign for treatment.
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]
Ehrenreich joined COSATU in 1989, raising to become its National Deputy General-Secretary from 1999 to 2001. [1] He represented COSATU at the World Trade Organization in Doha, International Confederation of Labour Trade Committee in Geneva; Organization of African Trade Union Unity in Ghana, and Unions Bi-lateral with French Trade Unions in Paris.
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.
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In 1986 he was part of a Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) delegation that met with the African National Congress (ANC) in Lusaka, and in 1989 was again in a COSATU group that briefed Nelson Mandela in prison. He was a member of the founding committee of COSATU in 1985, [1] [2] and was president of that organisation from 1991 to ...