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/ 4 November 2009
Congress of South African Trade Unions general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi’s salary has doubled to R500 000 a year, a media report said.
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/ 3 November 2009
Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi on Tuesday said the market-driven polices of the past were to blame for poor delivery.
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/ 30 October 2009
The future of the country will remain in jeopardy unless efforts are made to halt corruption, Cosatu said on Friday.
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/ 26 October 2009
Far more has to be done to rid the country of corruption, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said on Monday.
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/ 26 September 2009
Military trade unions were a constitutional right, and one worth fighting the government for, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said on Friday.
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/ 23 September 2009
Public servants cannot have private business interests, Zwelinzima Vavi told Cosatu’s 10th national congress on Wednesday.
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/ 23 September 2009
Cosatu is opposed to a planning minister, as outlined in the green paper released by the Minister in the Presidency earlier this month.
The number of deaths in South African mines is a national disgrace, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said on Friday.
Cosatu’s Zwelinzima Vavi on Tuesday blamed apartheid for the current state of the education system, despite 16 years under a new democratic regime.
Gwede Mantashe has criticised the Congress of South African Trade Union’s weighing in on the ANC’s leadership succession.
Cosatu is turning up the heat with threats of strike action despite its unwavering support for the ANC in the run-up to the elections.
Whether he serves a second term as president of the ANC is a decision left to the party, President Jacob Zuma told the SABC on Friday.
President Jacob Zuma will serve more than one term despite having previously said he planned to step down after five years, Cosatu said on Friday.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions is no longer boycotting cellphone operator Vodacom because it would be a ”difficult campaign to sustain”.
Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi and its spokesperson, Patrick Craven, are still on the Vodacom network, it was reported on Tuesday.
ANC president Jacob Zuma’s security detail has been beefed up ahead of his inauguration next week because there were some people who hated him.
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.
Cosatu general secretary raises concerns about ANC president Jacob Zuma’s assertion that there is no need for a review of monetary policy.
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/ 6 February 2009
President’s first State of the Nation speech walked a tightrope between appeasing the new, more leftist ANC and acknowledging the work done by Mbeki.
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/ 21 January 2009
Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has declined his nomination as an ANC representative in the National Assembly.
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/ 14 January 2009
Former president Thabo Mbeki plans to turn down his place on the ANC’s Gauteng list of candidates for the National Assembly.
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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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/ 3 December 2008
A combination of global and domestic economic circumstances provides a real test for South Africa’s economic policy, says President Kgalema Motlanthe.
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/ 6 November 2008
Trade unions need to stand together against ”unscrupulous politicians”, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said on Thursday.
Is BEE going the same way as the RDP and a number of other post-1994 policy acronyms?
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/ 19 September 2008
Read the second part of Zwelinzima Vavi’s economic manifesto, in which he looks ahead to economic policies geared towards SA’s future.
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/ 12 September 2008
ANC president Jacob Zuma said on Friday that the court ruling in his favour was a victory for the justice system but had left him a ”wounded warrior”.
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/ 11 September 2008
In the first of a two-part series, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi, argues that capital must be disciplined.
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/ 7 September 2008
SACP, Cosatu to reach agreement with ANC to co-determine government policy.
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/ 4 September 2008
Cosatu considered recent protests and a national stayaway over rising food, fuel and electricity prices as major victories, it said on Thursday.
It is a ”media myth” that the Cosatu does not respect the independence of the judiciary, its general secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi, said on Wednesday.
Zuma supporters sweep out leaders of Mbeki-aligned chemical union, writes Matuma Letsoalo.