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Trade unions: The key for unions to remain relevant to workers is to address their most basic needs. Photo: My_Cosatu
CHILD LABOUR

Unionised workforce still ideal

We are proud of how far Cosatu has come since it was launched 40 years ago in Durban and the role it has played in ending apartheid, securing our constitutional democracy,…

  • Zingiswa Losi
8 min read
Seeing red: The decision by the SACP to go it alone during the local government elections leaves workers in a difficult position as their allegiance is torn between the Communists and the ANC. Photo: SACP
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS ANC

Fragmented workers, the only mourners in ANC-SACP divorce

When workers are divided by political loyalty to competing parties, they cannot effectively unite against employers during wage negotiations

  • Lubabalo Cengani
7 min read
BHEKI NTSHALINTSHALI

Cosatu details plans for next week’s cost of living strike

The trade union federation is using protest to demand urgent action from the government to avoid an ‘economic collapse’

  • Sonri Naidoo
2 min read