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SA's energy crisis crippling the economy - Cosatu's Losi
Cosatu president Zingiswa Losi said that power cuts would see many more people lose their jobs but she still did not think that the beleaguered state-owned...
The Cosatu president painted a dire state of affairs for South Africa as it faces a record high unemployment rate, rising living costs, collapsing state institutions and crippled local municipalities.
This after she accused police, the National Prosecuting Authority and the judiciary of treating politicians with “kid gloves".
Losi recently quit the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) to become a member of the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu).
The red berets announced earlier this month that its planned union would rival Cosatu and never sell out workers.
Theto Mahlakoana takes an in-depth dive into the events that led to ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa being booed at a Cosatu May Day rally.
Cosatu President Zingiswa Losi told the ANC lekgotla that failure to discipline ANC deployments was feeding a culture of mediocrity within the alliance.
With union membership declining among the working class overall, Zingiswa Losi has challenged Cosatu unions to explore new strategies to attract young workers.
During her opening address of the federation’s central committee meeting on Monday, its highest decision-making body in between congresses, ZIngiswa Losi warned that workers cannot afford to have a Cosatu that is divided.
While the country is in the process of procuring inoculations for its citizens as it fights the pandemic anti-vaccine sentiments being are expressed by a number of people including those in higher offices such as political leaders.
Cosatu has had a fractious relationship with the minister since his appointment after his department adopted an austerity budget, which seeks to slash the public service wage bill R160 billion in the next three years.
The union's leader Zingiswa Losi applauded workers belonging to different federations in the country for Wednesday’s historic show of strength by uniting as they protested nationally.
Cosatu president Zingiswa Losi sends her tribute to stalwart and icon Andrew Mlangeni who passed away last Wednesday.
Cosatu president Zingiswa Losi said workers must be vigilant in how the fund manager, which invests funds on behalf of the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF), spends the money.
Cosatu president Zingiswa Losi says more must be done to protect the lives of miners to avoid incidents such as the scare at Sibanye Stillwater on 30 April.
Cosatu president Zingiswa Losi said the federation will be seeking answers from the executive at Eskom, particularly about how it suddenly cannot justify load shedding.
The Cosatu leader addressed thousands of members outside the Durban City Hall after they marched through the CBD on Wednesday.
The federation aims to bring productivity both in the public and private sector to a standstill.
The union federation’s leadership on Tuesday reported back on its latest central executive committee meeting.