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The spectacle of the blows between a Democratic Alliance-led crowd and COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Unions) would have been the stuff of farce if it weren’t so tragically unedifying. The DA has every right to march and be “provocative”. COSATU’s response...
Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi responds to an opinion piece in Friday’s Business Day by Adcorp’s Loane Sharp that ‘SA trade unions are the biggest obstacle to job creation’. He calls it “hogwash” that would not have shocked Joseph Goebbels, “whom Mr Sharp...
The battle for the electoral support of the millions of unemployed, unskilled and mostly ill-educated youth — perhaps the most crucial voting bloc for the 2014 elections — is now in the open. It came with the decision by the Democratic Alliance (DA) to march on Cosatu...
Continually lost in the ongoing row about the mooted youth wage subsidy is the context in which it is being proposed. Not just the national, but the global context. It is a context in which there are fewer and fewer jobs for more and more job seekers. At the same...
Few in Nigeria would have the feeling that 2012 is barely a month old. The past few weeks have been filled with events of historic proportions. First, in response to the unpopular 120% hike in petrol price, the people spontaneously took to the streets across the...
Amandla! (A!): COSATU has drafted its Economic Growth Path for full employment and government has published its New Growth Plan. Where do you see the debate on economic policy going in this country, and do you see any major shifts towards more distributive...