Cope crumbles as party leaders turn on each other
Both factions have issued each other with letters of suspension
Willie Madisha
Cope’s call for membership renewal met with disdain
A Cope member of the Gauteng legislature Clara Sodlulashe-Motau says the party’s deputy president can’t force people to renew their memberships.
Cope to purge rebels as soon as Parliament opens
In an effort to reinvent itself for the next elections, Cope will flush out those who supported expelled former deputy president Mbhazima Shilowa.
There would be no democracy without Zwelinzima Vavi
If Cosatu’s general secretary were to be snuffed out of the political game, SA would slip towards an intolerant autocracy, writes Nickolaus Bauer.
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Cosatu to push for pro-poor policies
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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Popcru accuses Cope of inciting workers to reject OSD
Popcru has accused Cope’s Willie Madisha of inciting correctional services staff to reject government’s occupation specific dispensation offer.
‘No toeing the party line’
A new federation to rival Cosatu was formed recently. Matuma Letsoalo quizzed its leading light, Cope leader Willie Madisha.
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‘I need a union that can fight for my rights’
Cosatu hampering workers’ right to choose their political affiliation was equivalent to what the apartheid government practiced, Willie Madisha said.
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Madisha announces new trade union launch
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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Madisha to launch new union federation
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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‘We are marching out of the ANC’
After weeks of tension between the ANC and a breakaway group unhappy with the ANC, a national convention got under way on Saturday.
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Four disaffected pillars of the split
Four political leaders have openly associated themselves with moves towards the formation of a new ANC-based political party.
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‘Black bag man’ sticks to his guns
Former Cosatu president Willie Madisha and former SACP treasurer Phillip Dexter both lost their positions after supporting Charles Modise’s claim.
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NPA yet to decide on SACP ‘donation’
The NPA is yet to make a final decision on how to proceed with a claim that a R500 000 donation given to the SACP’s Blade Nzimande went missing.
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Madisha hits back at ‘political imbeciles’
Ousted trade-union boss Willie Madisha came out firing at his detractors on Wednesday, saying he had been victimised by ”political imbeciles”.
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Madisha removed as Sadtu president
Willie Madisha has been removed as president of the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu), Sadtu’s Jon Lewis said on Tuesday.
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Businessman demands action in SACP money probe
The businessman at the centre of the controversy surrounding an alleged R500 000 cash donation to the South African Communist Party (SACP) demanded on Thursday that the police ”get a move on” with the investigation into what happened to the money.
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Madisha: SACP favoured cash to foil creditors
The South African Communist Party (SACP) has on several occasions taken large donations in cash in order to foil its creditors, according to former Congress of South African Trade Unions president Willie Madisha. He made the claim in an article in the Cape Times on Friday, in which he sought to ”set the record straight” on events surrounding his axing.
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New Cosatu president appointed
The Congress of South African Trade Unions on Wednesday elected S’dumo Dlamini to take over as president after the sacking of its embattled president, Willie Madisha. This was announced by Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi at a press briefing after the union’s three-day central executive committee meeting in Johannesburg.
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SACP expels Madisha
Unionist Willie Madisha has been expelled from the South African Communist Party (SACP), of which he was a central committee member, the organisation announced on Monday. It said the move followed a recommendation by a disciplinary committee that found he never disclosed a supposed R500 000 donation, and that he brought the party into disrepute.
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Madisha defies Cosatu to address jobs-trust event
More than 36Â 000 jobs have been created through the establishment of the Job Creation Trust, said its chairperson, Willie Madisha, on Saturday at the trust’s annual awards evening. Earlier, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) had said Madisha would be defying the union if he addressed the awards ceremony.
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Axed Madisha to turn to courts
Willie Madisha plans to take legal action in both the high court and Equality Court over his dismissal as president of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, media reports said on Tuesday. Madisha, who was axed last month, wanted to be reinstated, according to the reports.
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Cosatu: Mbeki loyalists not under fire
Senior Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) officials who are supporters of President Thabo Mbeki are not facing the axe, the trade-unionfederation said on Monday. Cosatu dismissed reports that three senior officials were in the firing line as ”totally untrue”.
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SACP urges police to finalise donation probe
The South African Communist Party has asked the South African Police Service to finalise its investigation into a donation scandal after an internal audit cleared their secretary general Blade Nzimande. The SACP audit was set up to investigate the whereabouts of R500 000 donated to the party by controversial businessman Charles Modise.
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Cosatu’s Madisha given marching orders
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) axed Willie Madisha as its president on Wednesday over his involvement in a missing donation scandal. This comes after a commission probing the matter presented its findings and recommendations to Cosatu’s central executive committee at its meeting this week.
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Is Cosatu getting rid of Willie Madisha?
Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) president Willie Madisha might be fired on Tuesday, City Press newspaper reported in its online edition on Saturday. Madisha’s fate is likely to be decided at Cosatu’s four-day central executive meeting that is expected to start on Sunday.
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Alleged SACP benefactor Modise denied bail
Controversial businessman Charles Modise was denied bail in the Kimberly Magistrate’s Court on Friday. Modise is being investigated by the Scorpions and faces various charges, including fraud, forgery and corruption in the Northern Cape. Magistrate Andre Williams postponed the matter to July 9 for further investigations.
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‘ANC will emerge from conference united’
The African National Congress (ANC)’s December national conference will serve as a springboard to propel the party to new heights, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said on Thursday. Speaking during the launch of the ANC parliamentary caucus website in Cape Town, Mlambo-Ngcuka said the party would surprise its critics.
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Madisha not interviewed on ‘missing’ R500 000
The commission set to investigate the disappearance of R500 000 donated to the South African Communist Party has not interviewed South African Democratic Teachers’ Union president Willie Madisha or his witness, Madisha told the union’s general council on Wednesday.
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From worker control to palace politics
"He’s behaving like Cosatu belongs to him," muttered one observer. It was a reference to Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi — the high-spirited, joke-cracking star of the show at the federation’s recent central committee (CC) meeting. Everything was going Vavi’s way.
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ANC succession race gets dirty in final leg
The battle for the leadership of the African National Congress (ANC) is becoming ever dirtier and fuelled by paranoia in the final weeks before delegates vote for the as-yet undeclared candidates. The challenge on the surface appears a straight contest between incumbent Thabo Mbeki and ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma.
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Madisha steps down amid donation furore
Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) president Willie Madisha has stepped down, it emerged on Friday. A special task team will now be established to make recommendations to Cosatu’s Central Executive Committee after Madisha voluntarily stepped down.