Unions want savings from the cleanup used to hire real workers and rebuild frontline services.

Every ghost post removed is one real worker restored.
#MovementMonitor #COSATU #DecentWork #WorkersRights

COSATU calls for urgent reforms as unemployment rises to 33.2%: 'It can't be business as usual' South Africa's official unemployment rate edged up to 33.2% in the second quarter of 2025 - an increase of 0.3 percentage points.

"... there's a need for government... to be as aggressive as we were during COVID… we should throw everything we have at it..."

- Matthew Parks, Parliamentary Coordinator - #Cosatu

COSATU calls for urgent reforms as unemployment rises to 33.2%: 'It can't be business as usual' South Africa's official unemployment rate edged up to 33.2% in the second quarter of 2025 - an increase of 0.3 percentage points.

"... there's a need for government... to be as aggressive as we were during COVID… we should throw everything we have at it..."

- Matthew Parks, Parliamentary Coordinator - #Cosatu

South Africa’s Employment Equity Act is a test:

Can we fix exclusion without creating new injustice?

Quotas alone aren’t enough. Real equity needs voice, pay, dignity, and security for all workers.
#movementmonitor, #Africanlabour #EmploymentEquity #LabourJustice #COSATU #SouthAfrica #AfCLAD

Farmworkers in Mpumalanga faced threats and denial of voting rights by some farm managers. Voting is a fundamental right that must be protected for all workers. #VotingRights #Farmworkers #SouthAfrica #Democracy #COSATU

Cosatu suggests BEE work around for Musk’s Starlink The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) believes a way can be found for Elon Musk’s Starlink to establish in South Africa without giving away a 30% stake as stipulated in the black economic empowerment (BEE) laws, in an effort to foster crucial relations with the United States (US). IOL reported on Tuesday that as diplomatic tensions simmer between the US and South Africa, the Pretoria authorities are extending an olive branch to Washington, including exploring a workaround to the BEE law. According to Bloomberg sources the South African government was preparing to offer Musk a tailored solution that circumvents existing BEE requirements – rules which Musk has repeatedly slammed as “racist and improper”. The controversial South Africa-born, US-based chief executive of Tesla and Starlink was in the room on Wednesday night when president Cyril Ramaphosa met US president Donald Trump in a high-level showdown, which was meant to reset South Africa-US relations. Speaking to Newzroom Afrika, Cosatu national spokesperson Zanele Sabela said as a way forward from the president’s meeting, concrete steps must now be taken to elevate the bilateral ties, and Starlink could be one of the building blocks. “What should happen next is, we need to see more happening. Starlink was mentioned, Musk was in the room and in the past he said he was not given a licence because he is not black. The issue is that he did not want to give 30% of his company to a black consortium,” said Sabela. EASE TENSIONS … Amid rising diplomatic tensions, the Congress of South African Trade Unions believes a workaround South Africa’s black economic empowerment laws and allowing Elon Musk’s Starlink to launch could help ease tensions. Photo: X “In terms of that, it won’t be the first time. In the BEE legislation, when you are unable to give shareholding, then there are things that you can do, in terms that you can actually contribute into the country. You can train people, you can build some coding training centre somewhere, you can give jobs. There are things we can start to talk about … so that we can get this monkey off our back in terms of the fires that Elon has been stoking.” In March, IOL reported that Musk’s Starlink had not applied for a licence to operate in South Africa, despite claiming that broad-based BEE laws are preventing his company from setting up. At the time, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa had indicated that Starlink had not yet applied for a licence. In South Africa, Starlink is listed as “service date is unknown” while it is starting operations in 2025 in Lesotho, Namibia, Tanzania, Congo (Brazzaville) and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Its services are available in eSwatini, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and Burundi, among other African countries. – IOL The post Cosatu suggests BEE work around for Musk’s Starlink appeared first on The Namibian.

#BEE #Starlink #ElonMusk #Cosatu #SouthAfrica

COSATU Reafirma su Inquebrantable Solidaridad con el Pueblo del Sáhara Occidental 7 de mayo de 2025 El Congreso de Sindicatos Sudafricanos (COSATU) se reunió con el Embajador de la República Árabe Saharaui Democrática (Sáhara Occidental), Su Excelencia, Sr. M. Y. Beisat Deich, como...

🤝 COSATU se reunió con el embajador saharaui Beisat Deich y celebró su nombramiento como nuevo Ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de la RASD.

✊🏽 Reafirmaron su compromiso con la lucha anticolonial y con la UGTSARIO.

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#SaharaLibre #COSATU #UGTSARIO

POLITRICKING: COSATU's Zingiswa Losi calls for Cabinet reshuffle, questions DA’s role in GNU 'If the DA is in the Government of National Unity, it is ironic that you are part of government, but you are opposed to the decisions that government is taking,' said COSATU's Zingiswa Losi.

#COSATU wants President #CyrilRamaphosa to reshuffle his Cabinet to constitute an executive that is sans members of the #DA.

POLITRICKING: COSATU's Zingiswa Losi calls for Cabinet reshuffle, questions DA’s role in GNU 'If the DA is in the Government of National Unity, it is ironic that you are part of government, but you are opposed to the decisions that government is taking,' said COSATU's Zingiswa Losi.

#COSATU wants President #CyrilRamaphosa to reshuffle his Cabinet to constitute an executive that is sans members of the #DA.

Budget 2025: 'Significant relief for the poor. Could've been handled more elegantly' – Cosatu Parliament has passed the 2025 national budget, but tensions are running high.

"There is significant amounts of relief for the poor."

- Matthew Parks, Parliamentary Coordinator – #Cosatu

Budget 2025: 'Significant relief for the poor. Could've been handled more elegantly' – Cosatu Parliament has passed the 2025 national budget, but tensions are running high.

"There is significant amounts of relief for the poor."

- Matthew Parks, Parliamentary Coordinator – #Cosatu

Cosatu 'pleasantly surprised' by reception in Washington DC A group of South African business and labour leaders visited Washington DC recently in an unofficial capacity, to assess US sentiment towards South Africa amid escalating tensions.

"I think all of them indicated a desire to see how US-South Africa relations can be stabilised, can be rebuilt and how they could be enhanced from a trade, investment and jobs perspective."

- Matthew Parks, Parliamentary coordinator - #Cosatu

Cosatu 'pleasantly surprised' by reception in Washington DC A group of South African business and labour leaders visited Washington DC recently in an unofficial capacity, to assess US sentiment towards South Africa amid escalating tensions.

"I think all of them indicated a desire to see how US-South Africa relations can be stabilised, can be rebuilt and how they could be enhanced from a trade, investment and jobs perspective."

- Matthew Parks, Parliamentary coordinator - #Cosatu

COSATU accuses Hill-Lewis of treating probe on CoCT's Smith, Limberg differently Hundreds of opposition party members demonstrated outside the city's Civic Centre on Thursday, demanding immediate removal of Smith and Limberg from office.

#COSATU accuses #CapeTown Mayor #GeordinHillLewis of treating the investigation on #JPSmith and #XantheaLimberg differently.

COSATU accuses Hill-Lewis of treating probe on CoCT's Smith, Limberg differently Hundreds of opposition party members demonstrated outside the city's Civic Centre on Thursday, demanding immediate removal of Smith and Limberg from office.

#COSATU accuses #CapeTown Mayor #GeordinHillLewis of treating the investigation on #JPSmith and #XantheaLimberg differently.