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Cope won’t join forces

Cope crumbles as party leaders turn on each other

Both factions have issued each other with letters of suspension

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Cope’s call for membership renewal met with disdain

A Cope member of the Gauteng legislature Clara Sodlulashe-Motau says the party’s deputy president can’t force people to renew their memberships.

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Cope to purge rebels as soon as Parliament opens

In an effort to reinvent itself for the next elections, Cope will flush out those who supported expelled former deputy president Mbhazima Shilowa.

There would be no democracy without Zwelinzima Vavi

If Cosatu’s general secretary were to be snuffed out of the political game, SA would slip towards an intolerant autocracy, writes Nickolaus Bauer.

Cosatu to push for pro-poor policies

Cosatu will push for pro-poor economic policies and changes at the central bank when it meets with its members and political allies on Monday.

Popcru accuses Cope of inciting workers to reject OSD

Popcru has accused Cope’s Willie Madisha of inciting correctional services staff to reject government’s occupation specific dispensation offer.

Willy Madisha. Photo: Lisa Skinner

‘No toeing the party line’

A new federation to rival Cosatu was formed recently. Matuma Letsoalo quizzed its leading light, Cope leader Willie Madisha.

‘I need a union that can fight for my rights’

Cosatu hampering workers’ right to choose their political affiliation was equivalent to what the apartheid government practiced, Willie Madisha said.

Madisha announces new trade union launch

Ex-Cosatu president Willie Madisha announced on Thursday that a new trade union movement is to be launched on March 28 in Gauteng.

Madisha to launch new union federation

Ex Cosatu president Willie Madisha intends launching a new workers federation before the end of the month, it was reported on Monday.

‘We are marching out of the ANC’

After weeks of tension between the ANC and a breakaway group unhappy with the ANC, a national convention got under way on Saturday.

Four disaffected pillars of the split

Four political leaders have openly associated themselves with moves towards the formation of a new ANC-based political party.

‘Black bag man’ sticks to his guns

Former Cosatu president Willie Madisha and former SACP treasurer Phillip Dexter both lost their positions after supporting Charles Modise’s claim.

NPA yet to decide on SACP ‘donation’

The NPA is yet to make a final decision on how to proceed with a claim that a R500 000 donation given to the SACP’s Blade Nzimande went missing.

Madisha hits back at ‘political imbeciles’

Ousted trade-union boss Willie Madisha came out firing at his detractors on Wednesday, saying he had been victimised by ”political imbeciles”.

Madisha removed as Sadtu president

Willie Madisha has been removed as president of the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu), Sadtu’s Jon Lewis said on Tuesday.

Businessman demands action in SACP money probe

The businessman at the centre of the controversy surrounding an alleged R500 000 cash donation to the South African Communist Party (SACP) demanded on Thursday that the police…

Madisha: SACP favoured cash to foil creditors

The South African Communist Party (SACP) has on several occasions taken large donations in cash in order to foil its creditors, according to former Congress of South African…

New Cosatu president appointed

The Congress of South African Trade Unions on Wednesday elected S’dumo Dlamini to take over as president after the sacking of its embattled president, Willie Madisha. This was…

SACP expels Madisha

Unionist Willie Madisha has been expelled from the South African Communist Party (SACP), of which he was a central committee member, the organisation announced on Monday. It said…