Who is the leader of cosatu

Losi has been a second deputy president of Cosatu since Other Cosatu leaders elected at the 13th national congress are: first deputy president Mike Shingange second deputy president Louisa Thipe; general secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali re-elected ; deputy general secretary Solly Phetoe re-elected and treasurer Frieda Oosthuizen re-elected. Would you like to comment on this article or view other readers' comments? Subscribe Sign In.

Markets Data. Market data — November 11 Market data including bonds and fuel prices. B L Premium. Rand muted ahead of the medium-term budget. Columnists Editorials Letters. Featured Business welcomes budget but warns of formidable challenges. We are not victims, but we are enablers then. Do not elect corrupt leaders and do not allow your unions to be divided by corruption. The labour movement needs to be self-sustaining. We cannot fight employers who are also our funders.

If you have to fundraise for a strike, they you are in big trouble. If you depend on your enemy for your existence, you are in big trouble. Unite and fight Thirdly comrades- As workers, we are on our own. We cannot outsource our responsibilities. What is happening to us is all across the economic sectors is blatant provocation.

The solution is to unite and fight. If the current challenges do not force us to unite and fight back against these austerity measures and the capitalist onslaught, we are doomed as workers and we deserve our misery. Starting with the current deadlock in the public service wage negotiations, unions and social organisations should respond with militancy and programmes of the mass-line.

This means embarking on mass picketing; sympathy strikes and solidarity rallies embracing the widest sections of workers both in the public and the private sector.

Trade unions need to unite with a range of mass formations organizing students, women, religious groups, and youth to build and strengthen working class power in society. Permanent mobilization of the working class and the poor, through variety of their organizations is necessary to build capacity and momentum against this working-class onslaught. Let us also come out with alternative ideas. We agree that its socialism, but in theory what does that mean? Practically, what needs to be done?

Our SOEs are collapsing, we agree that they should not be privatised, but how do we fix them. Let us get talking as the working class about alternative ideas. It is up to our ally the ANC to determine the success of this upcoming campaign.

The ANC government needs to intervene and resolve the issues that workers have raised or else we will have a parallel campaign preparing for a massive strike. We have also made it clear that we support the right of the ANC to defend itself against ill-discipline on the part of some of its members, who are ill-disciplined.

We cannot continue to pander to a small minority of comrades who have long abandoned the principle of collective leadership in favour of crass individualism that continues to harm the image of this glorious movement.

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We need to find ways to resolve matters of scoping and to ensure it does not become flashpoints that can divide us. This is a critical matter. If we do not handle scoping with the sensitivity and maturity it requires, it will divide unions. It will set Affiliates as rivals to be fought against and not as comrades to be supported.

We have all committed ourselves to supporting the emancipation of women. Yet no Affiliate currently has woman General Secretary.

Only one Affiliate has a woman President. What is our plan to invest in a generation of women leaders? Or is ours just to shout Malibongwe? We need to invest more in our gender structures and campaigns, both at a provincial and an Affiliate level. There are not vocal enough.

We witnessed a rise in GBV in the beginning of the lockdown. The 3 GBV Bills are likely to come into effect by the end of Can we develop campaigns to make sure all our members and workers are aware of the protections these Bills will bring?

Can we also make sure that all criminals and abusers of women and children know the consequences of their abusive behaviour? Comrades we have won many victories since the Congress yet we are not claiming them. The National Minimum Wage has improved the wages of 6 million farm, domestic, construction, retail, hospitality and other workers?

What about other Affiliates? But we have far to go still. The COIDA Bill will be passed into law by mid, can we not run recruitment campaigns to sign up domestic workers and ensure they are registered for the Compensation Fund? What are the plans of Affiliates and Provinces to ensure we organise the remaining 5 million workers to register for the UIF? Are we happy for our membership to remain 1. We have set bold recruitment targets to reach 2 million.

But we need to do much more. Provinces can only be strong if we have vibrant locals. Yet many Affiliates are not active in these structures. Instead we rely upon a few Affiliates to cover for us. This is not sustainable. We have workers in every ward, town, village and city. So why are we not signing them up? What are we doing to ensure that we actively service them as Affiliates?

We cannot afford for this gap to grow. One of our most fundamental tasks to ensure the long term survival of the Federation is to recruit young workers.

Yet only 2 Affiliates have established young workers structures. What is our plan to recruit the youth?

To ensure that young people understand why we need trade unions? We should not rely upon past victories of , and to attract the youth. They need to know what will unions do for them in , and ? Some in the media mocked us as a spent force. That is no longer the case. Not a day will pass without all media institutions calling COSATU to ask for its views on what must be done to fix the economy, provide relief to workers, stabilise Eskom, tackle corruption, roll out vaccines, protect women from abuse etc.

This is because COSATU not only has a highly effective communications department but also because our Affiliates are leading in their sectors. It is because despite all our differences we are united. It is because we speak sense and we have clear and pragmatic solutions. There are organisations out there who spout all sorts of silly ideas.

No one takes them seriously or bothers to call them. Comrade leadership and delegates allow me to thank you for the countless hours and years you have spent and continue to spend in pursuit of improving the lives of workers. Thank you for making our national day of action in October an overwhelming success despite a pandemic. Thank you for defending the rights of mine workers to a living wage, for ensuring that clothing workers receive above inflation increases, for protecting Eskom workers from retrenchments.

Thank you for ensuring that Parliament adopted ILO Convention on tackling sexual harassment at the workplace and for forcing government to reinstate the R grant and help millions receive relief from the UIF. Without this unity, none of our victories would have been possible. The legendary American trade unionist, socialist and civil rights leader, A. That is why we are here. Let us emerge from this CC reinvigorated and with clear marching orders in this battle on behalf of the working class.

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