Cosatu’s Bheki Ntshalintshali says the report also shows that the auditors had not been able to meet Zwelinzima Vavi, despite attempts to do so.
Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi may feel the wrath of the union federation for not attending its central executive committee meeting.
Radical white students played an important role in opposing apartheid and paved the way for Cosatu.
As the president’s State of the Nation address draws near, the federation is asking for extra government spending to boost the ailing economy.
Most commentators have got the idea of the United Front wrong, and many important points from the national congress in December were overlooked.
Numsa’s general secretary Irvin Jim reiterates that Numsa won’t convert to a "political party", and will remain inspired by Marxism-Leninism.
Zwelinzima Vavi says union leaders must stop acting like bosses who can make decisions without touching base with their union members.
Cosatu’s general secretary says the way towards unity is to have Numsa reinstated and to hold a special national congress "sooner rather than later".
Unions are going out of business, presenting the ANC with a political and economic dilemma.
A special national congress will be held by trade union Cosatu next year, and sources say Zwelinzima Vavi will not be removed.
Cosatu’s proposed minimum is being taken seriously because of its place in government.
The biggest losers in the Cosatu-Numsa battle seem to be the ANC, SACP and Cosatu – and the real price is set to come in the 2016 municipal elections.
The union federation’s rising professional class is out of step with its hard-pressed, unskilled members.
If the tripartite parties’ interests have diverged, then the parties should diverge. Rather give the voters a democratic contestation of issues.
Unions had stopped growing at the same pace as the workforce long before Numsa’s exit from trade union federation Cosatu.
Before its expulsion, Numsa’s 350 000 members paid an affiliation fee of R2.92, amounting to over a million rand that Cosatu will lose monthly.
Three and a half days after a vote to expel Numsa from Cosatu, a formal letter it received was not signed by Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi.
The unions will consult members before participating in any Cosatu meetings, and talks of forming an alternate federation have not been ruled out.
In support of Numsa, seven Cosatu affiliates will no longer participate in the decision-making body and called Numsa’s expulsion "unconstitutional".
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe says it is up to the trade union federation to "smell the coffee and reverse its decision".
Cosatu and the country are at a crossroads when legitimate dissent becomes a crime, thereby threatening the very essence of democracy.
Numsa’s Irvin Jim says the union will lobby its members to reject the expulsion and will forge ahead with its plans to launch a “united front”.
Numsa’s bid to have Cosatu’s special central executive committee meeting halted was unsuccessful, and both will go head-to-head on Friday.
Numsa has filed an urgent interdict at the South Gauteng High Court to stop a crucial meeting in which it is expected to be expelled from Cosatu.
The ANC general secretary has dismissed claims that the party is trying to reduce Cosatu to a labour desk, and has called on unions to do their work.
The metalworkers’ union had tired of the ANC and wanted Cosatu to break with the ruling party and come with them into a brave new socialist future.
Numsa is playing all its cards and forging ahead, at all costs, with its plans to stand firm in its political ideals.
Calling Numsa’s imminent expulsion from Cosatu a well-co-ordinated plan by the ANC, the union has formed its own party and promises to go to court.
A political analyst says despite its strength in numbers, Numsa is wise to tread carefully with trade federation Cosatu.
Unfazed that it may be booted out, Numsa has vowed to push ahead and form a workers’ party.
Differences of opinion and divisions in Cosatu cannot be resolved through elections or by axing members, an ANC-led task team has found.
ANC leaders appear set on advising Cosatu to boot the union from the federation, but Numsa is determined to fight any suspension.