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South Africa’s COSATU leads union protests over coronavirus impact

South Africa’s COSATU leads union protests over coronavirus impact

ALEXANDER WINNING SOUTH Africa's biggest trade union group, COSATU, has led nationwide protests against job losses, wage curbs and corruption cases, in an outpouring of anger at how workers have been treated during the coronavirus crisis. The union federation organised motorcades, pickets and marches in the country's nine provinces, although it was not clear how many of its more than 1 million members heeded a call to stay away from work. Labour unrest regularly affects companies in sectors like mining during negotiations over wages, but it is much rarer for COSATU, typically an ally of the governing African National Congress…
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We must all unite behind the ANC renewal program

We must all unite behind the ANC renewal program

D.D MABUZA The recent letter addressed to the membership of the ANC on the 23rd of August 2020 by our President, Comrade Cyril Ramaphosa, reaffirming the correct anti-corruption positions that we had adopted during both our 53rd and 54th National Conference, is most appropriate. It is a clarion call that correctly calls for the progressive forces of our movement to make a choice of being on the right side of the line that has now been drawn on the sand and for those who opt to define themselves in contrast to the values and ethos of the ANC, to leave.…
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