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/ 8 November 2010
Cosatu voices their anger over Mpumalanga premier David Mabuza’s decision not to consult them on the provincial executive reshuffle.
Alliance partners in the ANC, SACP and Cosatu brushed aside any suggestions of a split at a meeting in Pietermaritzburg on Saturday.
Legal action may be taken against the civil society leaders who questioned the moral integrity of ANC leaders and named them, the party says.
The ANC leadership was paranoid in interpreting a civil society conference as an attempt to effect regime change, Cosatu’s Zwelinzima Vavi says.
Cosatu urged newly appointed Cabinet ministers on Monday to bring down "unacceptable" levels of unemployment, poverty and inequality.
ANC Youth League president Julius Malema launched a stinging attack on Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi on Friday night.
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/ 29 October 2010
Cosatu is not giving up on President Jacob Zuma — at least for now. But the federation’s officials still had scorching words for this week’s budget.
Cosatu’s Zwelinzima Vavi has denied suggestions that a civil society conference under way in Boksburg was testing waters for a new political party.
Cosatu is upset about the arms-deal probe being scrapped, saying the flawed deal had made many rich on the sidelines, it was reported on Tuesday.
The congress of Cosatu’s teachers’ union, Sadtu, broke down in pandemonium on Thursday after delegates booed and heckled the ANC’s Gwede Mantashe.
The ANC’s left-wing allies are working on a plan that will propel trade union and communist leaders into top leadership positions.
The question of where the "strategic centre of power" was in the tripartite alliance is still upsetting the Congress of South African Trade Unions.
The ANC should deal decisively with members who lobby for the ruling party’s top posts, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said on Sunday.
Cosatu ‘s Zwelinzima Vavi could emerge as the rival of the deputy police minister, Fikile Mbalula, for the position of ANC secretary general in 2012.
Cosatu put pressure on the ANC on Tuesday, threatening to "name and shame" people who use political connections to line their pockets.
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/ 23 September 2010
Rea Vaya workers who staged a two-day illegal work stoppage this week once again brought the issue of labour brokers to the fore.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) revealed on Thursday that it planned to set up a "corruption watch".
The African National Congress will press on Wednesday for a new tribunal to punish unscrupulous reporting.
It was time for the ANC to act against those prematurely mobilising and lobbying for succession, party president Jacob Zuma said on Monday.
ANC members will gather in Durban for a policy review meeting on Monday with President Jacob Zuma under pressure to speed up services to the poor.
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/ 17 September 2010
Cosatu-affiliated union Popcru on Friday took exception to an <i>M&G</i> article about a fake Facebook profile of Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven.
South African President Jacob Zuma faces a fight for his political future next week at a major ANC policy-setting session.
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/ 16 September 2010
Isasa believes Cosatu’s proposal to do away with private schools is based on misconceptions about the private-school sector.
The economic growth path outlined by Cosatu is "out of touch" and an "impractical wish list of discredited ideas", the DA says on Wednesday.
Some safe bets in SA’s turbulent politics are that massive unemployment will persist, poverty will remain widespread and the ANC will stay in power.
Government should tax the "super rich" and play a more "aggressive role" in the economy, Cosatu) suggested in its new growth path for South Africa.
The debate over nationalisation started "wrongly and in the wrong place", said Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi on Tuesday.
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/ 14 September 2010
Cosatu and the ANC want the focus of the ruling party’s forthcoming national general council to be on policy issues, not leadership squabbles.
The African National Congress and Cosatu kept mum following their meeting at the ANC’s headquarters in Johannesburg on Monday.
The ANC and Cosatu will on Monday try to repair their governing alliance, which has been described "dysfunctional".
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/ 10 September 2010
President Jacob Zuma and the ANC’s national executive committee are not assured of Cosatu’s support at the next elective conference of the ANC.
Strike action to curb rampant corruption may be on the cards, according to a Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) discussion document.