Both factions have issued each other with letters of suspension
A Cope member of the Gauteng legislature Clara Sodlulashe-Motau says the party’s deputy president can’t force people to renew their memberships.
In an effort to reinvent itself for the next elections, Cope will flush out those who supported expelled former deputy president Mbhazima Shilowa.
If Cosatu’s general secretary were to be snuffed out of the political game, SA would slip towards an intolerant autocracy, writes Nickolaus Bauer.
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.
Popcru has accused Cope’s Willie Madisha of inciting correctional services staff to reject government’s occupation specific dispensation offer.
A new federation to rival Cosatu was formed recently. Matuma Letsoalo quizzed its leading light, Cope leader Willie Madisha.
Cosatu hampering workers’ right to choose their political affiliation was equivalent to what the apartheid government practiced, Willie Madisha said.
Ex-Cosatu president Willie Madisha announced on Thursday that a new trade union movement is to be launched on March 28 in Gauteng.
Ex Cosatu president Willie Madisha intends launching a new workers federation before the end of the month, it was reported on Monday.
After weeks of tension between the ANC and a breakaway group unhappy with the ANC, a national convention got under way on Saturday.
Four political leaders have openly associated themselves with moves towards the formation of a new ANC-based political party.
Former Cosatu president Willie Madisha and former SACP treasurer Phillip Dexter both lost their positions after supporting Charles Modise’s claim.
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.
Ousted trade-union boss Willie Madisha came out firing at his detractors on Wednesday, saying he had been victimised by ”political imbeciles”.
