Latest articles on Cosatu

Richard Calland: Not much has shuffled in the political pack

Opinion Richard Calland - 3 Dec 2020

Stocktake at the end of a momentous year shows that the ruling party holds all the cards but has little room for manoeuvre

Fight inequality the South African way

Opinion Liv Tørres - 12 Nov 2020

Civil society helped topple apartheid, but the struggle is not over. The gap between rich and poor has widened and corruption and poor governance is evident

Public wage bill is impeding SA’s growth prospects — Busa

Business Tshegofatso Mathe - 9 Nov 2020

Business Unity South Africa is eager to talk to its social partners at Nedlac about how the spiralling public-sector wage bill can be tamed. And the organisation says these talks need to happen soon

State’s wage freeze sparks apoplexy

Business Thando Maeko & Tshegofatso Mathe - 29 Oct 2020

Public sector unions have cried foul over the government’s plan to freeze wages for three years and have vowed to fight back.

Too broke for Mboweni to budget

Business Sabelo Skiti & Thando Maeko - 15 Oct 2020

The scramble to find cash for an SAA bailout, Covid-19 grants and civil servants’ demands force postponement of mini-budget

Teacher union to join Cosatu strike over ‘uncaring employer’

Coronavirus Bongekile Macupe - 5 Oct 2020

Sadtu has accused the state of being an “uncaring employer” for failing to pay salary increases due two years ago

October 7 strike: ‘Lukewarm’ action amid Covid-19 crisis?

Coronavirus Sarah Smit - 3 Oct 2020

After months of little action, the planned nationwide stayaway may not be an impressive show of force by the trade union movement

Dance with the ‘devil’: Why SA has fought off the IMF for so long

Politics Luke Feltham - 27 Sep 2020

The ANC has, until now, always rejected going to the International Monetary Fund, which underscores how bad our economic situation is

Editorial: Corruption taints us all

Coronavirus Editorial - 22 Aug 2020

The SIU revealed that it is investigating 658 companies that may have profited unfairly from the Covid-19 crisis. Together those companies raked in over R5-billion — money that could have been better spent plugging some of the many leaks that have imperilled South Africa’s democracy.

Cosatu proposes interventions to tackle Covid-19 procurement graft

Business Thando Maeko - 6 Aug 2020

In light of irregular spending on Covid-19 procurement, Cosatu recommends that politically connected people be barred from doing business with the state

Workers battle for UIF payouts

Business Chris Gilili - 26 Jun 2020

Snarl-ups at the Unemployment Insurance Fund and bosses not assisting employees worsens people’s suffering

Mboweni to further tighten the belt in his budget

Business Thando Maeko & Tshegofatso Mathe - 23 Jun 2020

The finance minister will cut departments’ allocations according to their cloth as one measure, and savings will have been made from underspend during the lockdown

Fawu fires deputy general secretary. Again.

Business Paddy Harper - 22 Jun 2020

Moloko Phakedi plans to fight the decision. Again. The Food and Allied Workers Union says it will continue its inquiry into the R19-million written off in the union’s investment wing

Invisible threat to workers’ rights

Business Sarah Smit - 14 May 2020

Nearly half of all workplaces inspected by the department of labour found to be unsafe

Employers are now compelled to claim Covid-19 relief from the UIF

Article Sarah Smit - 17 Apr 2020

In the first weeks of the lockdown, workers reported that they had been left with nothing to survive on as their employers failed to apply to the UIF

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Richard Calland: Not much has shuffled in the political pack

Fight inequality the South African way

Public wage bill is impeding SA’s growth prospects — Busa

State’s wage freeze sparks apoplexy

Too broke for Mboweni to budget

Teacher union to join Cosatu strike over ‘uncaring employer’

October 7 strike: ‘Lukewarm’ action amid Covid-19 crisis?

Dance with the ‘devil’: Why SA has fought off the IMF for so long

Editorial: Corruption taints us all

Cosatu proposes interventions to tackle Covid-19 procurement graft

Workers battle for UIF payouts

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Fawu fires deputy general secretary. Again.

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Employers are now compelled to claim Covid-19 relief from the UIF

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