Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula must send army troops to Western Cape rural areas to prevent farmworker violence, says Helen Zille.
Lenasia residents whose houses have been demolished must be compensated, Cosatu Gauteng has said, while Julius Malema will visit the area.
Public hearings will begin this week to gather the opinions of farmworkers and their employers on labour conditions.
The ANC and opposition parties should table a motion of no confidence in Western Cape Premier Helen Zille, Cosatu has said.
Cosatu will never regain its integrity, former ANC Youth League spokesperson Floyd Shivambu has said.
Cosatu has called for a day of civil disobedience on November 30 in protest against the e-tolling of Gauteng’s highways, it said on Wednesday evening.
A man has been killed during farm workers protests outside Wolsely in the Western Cape.
Agriculture Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson will hold an urgent meeting in Pretoria to discuss the strike by De Doorns farmworkers.
The apartheid policeman who was instrumental in unionist Neil Aggett’s suicide has rebranded himself as a business counterintelligence consultant.
Cyril Ramaphosa moves to clear his name and Cosatu works to reclaim lost ground in the North West.
The Congress of SA Trade Unions general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has called for a review of all minimum wage agreements.
The Congress of the South African Trade Unions says it will hold a protest action against the dismissal of illegally striking mineworkers.
Zwelinzima Vavi has said that the Marikana incident has exposed weaknesses in Cosatu and that the federation wants Rustenburg back.
Cosatu will back President Jacob Zuma and the "core of the Polokwane collective" for a second term as ANC leader, the union federation says.
President Jacob Zuma chews the fat with his enemies, attempting to woo the likes of Fikile Mbalula while Cosatu mulls over its preferred candidate.
This week the government responded to two of the issues facing a depressed South Africa – Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla upgrade and protracted strikes.
Blame for the labour crisis in South Africa has been placed at mine bosses’ door for caving in to illegal action.
The government’s announcement on e-tolling in Gauteng may be delayed, the inter-ministerial committee on the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project said.
Zwelinzima Vavi says the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the NUM will take forward mineworkers’ demands for better wages in all sectors.
On Monday, the long lie that is the ANC pre-conference embargo on "leadership contestation" finally ends.
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The ANC smells a Marikana rat and the Cosatu national congress could be a preview of what’s to come in Mangaung.
Speaking ahead of its national congress Cosatu has hinted that it will push for a national minimum wage to be legislated across all sectors.
In this week’s M&G: Cosatu at a crossroads, Mangaung and Malema’s mining revolution. Watch our live blog with reporter Matuma Letsoalo.
The anti-Zuma campaign begins to take shape and the Cosatu congress looms – the outcome of which is sure to prove decisive on the road to Mangaung.
The Democratic Alliance has held a picket at the Union Buildings and called on President Jacob Zuma to back the youth wage subsidy.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions has extended support to Swaziland’s people, saying they will see democracy soon.
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Vavi has said the emergence of breakaway unions is "the biggest onslaught waged by the bourgeoisie against the living standards of the working class".
The Lonmin shooting has cost Zuma dearly, with Juju calling on him to resign – and divisions have begin to emerge within Cosatu too, on the Road to Mangaung.