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/ 21 September 2009
Cosatu will push for pro-poor economic policies and changes at the central bank when it meets with its members and political allies on Monday.
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/ 11 September 2009
The education department does not have the money to implement an OSD despite having signed an agreement with unions, Angie Motshekga said on Friday.
Cabinet on Thursday warned of stronger police action against the organisers and participants of violent and destructive protests.
The investigation into the mining accident at Impala Platinum’s Rustenburg operations must be rigorous and thorough, Cosatu said on Tuesday.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions on Friday backed a call by ANCYL president Julius Malema for mine nationalisation.
The Social Development Department and unions have agreed to implement the occupation specific dispensation, backdated to April 1 2008.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions is no longer boycotting cellphone operator Vodacom because it would be a ”difficult campaign to sustain”.
Numsa will on Monday ask all Cosatu affiliates to join a national rolling mass action, should the Reserve Bank not cut interest rates.
Thursday’s ”minimal” 100 basis points repo rate cut will do little to help with economic recovery in the country, Cosatu said.
The High Court in Pretoria on Sunday ruled in favour of Vodacom and dismissed the application by Cosatu and Icasa to prevent its listing on the JSE.
Cellphone giant Vodacom will face telecommunications regulator Icasa and union federation Cosatu in the Pretoria High Court on Sunday.
The decision of Icasa to rescind its ruling on Telkom South Africa’s sale of its Vodacom shares to Vodafone was welcomed by Icasa on Friday.
Communist Blade Nzimande was made Minister of Higher Education because he was a revolutionary, metalworkers heard in Boksburg on Tuesday.
Numsa leaders launched a scathing attack against Cope on Monday, saying its founders had inferiority complexes and were ”honorary whites”.
Investors will be looking to the composition of SA’s new Cabinet as a clue to the future policy direction, financial services group Nomura says.
An election rally in honour of freedom fighter Chris Hani on Saturday was turned into a day of mudslinging by the alliance partners of the ANC.
Ex-Cosatu president Willie Madisha announced on Thursday that a new trade union movement is to be launched on March 28 in Gauteng.
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/ 26 February 2009
Cosatu on Thursday expressed concern about companies using the global financial meltdown as an excuse to cut jobs and maximise profits.
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/ 16 February 2009
Ex Cosatu president Willie Madisha intends launching a new workers federation before the end of the month, it was reported on Monday.
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/ 9 February 2009
Key Cosatu and SACP leaders have surprisingly declined ANC nominations for seats in the National Assembly after this year’s general election.
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/ 3 February 2009
Durban dock workers are expected to refuse to offload an Israeli ship as part of a week of action against Israel, Cosatu said on Tuesday.
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/ 19 January 2009
Teachers affiliated to the SA Democratic Teachers Union were sacrificing the teaching of children for electioneering, the DA said on Monday.
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/ 13 January 2009
Cosatu on Tuesday warned Cope president Mosiuoa Lekota that if he continued threatening the rights of the workers he would be in for a ”big surprise”.
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/ 13 January 2009
The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry will oppose calls by Cosatu to change the labour act, it was reported on Tuesday.
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/ 10 December 2008
Johan Nel’s legal team will be at Mmabatho High Court on Friday to hear whether he is granted leave to appeal his sentence, police said on Wednesday.
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/ 9 December 2008
All the odds seem to be heavily stacked against South Africa’s goal of halving unemployment by 2014, industry players said late on Tuesday.
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/ 5 December 2008
Cosatu said on Friday it’s "deeply worried" that more than a third of SA companies are likely to retrench staff in the next six months.
North West University managers have challenged Naledi Pandor’s intervention at the unrest-torn university over a commission of inquiry.
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/ 19 September 2003
A thunderous welcome left little question about the deputy president’s sustained popularity.
Cosatu has thrown its weight behind the campaign by affiliates and regional structures of the UDF to tackle the problem of the homeless.
Talks between unions and managers fail to resolve ‘days of protest’ dispute.
A security guard at the building, Stanley Khumalo, yesterday said he heard a loud bang before the building was filled with smoke.