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COSATU AFFILIATED UNIONS NUMSA - NEHAWU - POPCRU AND CEPPWAWU HOSTS WORLD
FEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS (WFTU) PRESIDENTIAL COUNCIL
08 February 2012, NUMSA Head Office
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) affiliated unions,
namely National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), the National
Education Health and Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU), Police Prisons and Civil
Rights Union (POPCRU) and Chemical Energy Print Paper and Allied Workers
Union (CEPPWAWU) will be jointly hosting the meeting of the World
Federations of Trade Unions (WFTU) Presidential Council as from Thursday 9
February 2012 -until- Friday 10 February 2012 in Parktonian Hotel,
Braamfontein, Johannesburg, Gauteng province. This follows the successful
hosting of the International Conference on Building a Socially-Owned
Renewable Sector in South Africa organised by NUMSA which was held at
Vincent Mabuyakhulu Conference Centre, Newtown, Johannesburg.
This meeting, coincides with the centenary celebrations of the leader of our
alliance, the African National Congress (ANC), and solidify the historical
role played by class orientated trade unions movements or federations of the
world in our struggle for liberation, peoples power and socialism. This
meeting of the WFTU will be attended by more than 70 trade unions
formations, representing the four corners of the world, namely Latin
America, Asia, Africa, and Europe.
The current global capitalist onslaught as permeated by the global crisis of
Capitalism presents a strategic opportunity for class orientated trade
unions of South Africa and the world to forge close links geared towards
deepening working class internationalism and solidarity. Never before has
working class internationalism, universalism, more important than now. This
is the fact made possible by the very expansion of Capitalism all over the
globe! The class orientated and revolutionary formations of Africa and the
world need to rally and identify itself with broader struggles of the
working class in other parts of the world to reverse the barbarity and decay
of Capitalism!
This Presidential Council will be held under the strategic theme,
"Capitalist Crisis, Barbarism or Socialism".
LATER this evening Wednesday 08 February 2012, a Gala Dinner will be hosted
by WFTU to honour prominent South African trade union and liberation
movement stalwarts, such as Moses Kotane, Moses Mabhida, Lesley Masina,
Michael Harmel, Eric Mtshali, JB Marks, John Nkadimeng and Nelson Mandela.
This Gala Dinner will be addressed by General Secretary of the WFTU, and the
ANC's message will be delivered by ANC President Jacob Zuma via a recorded
message. A number of ANC, SACP, COSATU and its affiliates will be present at
the Gala Dinner. The Gala Dinner will begin at 18h30pm, Parktonian Hotel,
Braamfontein.
The President of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) Comrade
SDUMO DLAMINI, will address the Presidential Council on Thursday 09 February
2012, at 09h15am, Parktonian Hotel, Braamfontein. The General Secretary of
the South African Communist Party (SACP) Comrade BLADE NZIMANDE will also do
the same on Friday 10 February 2012, at 11h00am, Parktonian Hotel,
Braamfontein.
A Shopsteward Council meeting will be held on Friday 10 February 2012,
starting time 14h00pm, Recreation Centre (Behind Parktonian Hotel), Cnr
Simmonds and Juta Streets, Braamfontein, Johannesburg. The speakers are
General Secretaries of WFTU GEORGE MAVRIKOS, NUMSA IRVIN JIM and NEHAWU
SLOVO MAJOLA.
The militant and agitated metalworkers welcome the delegates to the WFTU
Presidential Council. We wish the WFTU a successful Presidential Council in
our shores. The working class is awaiting its revolutionary outcomes in
order to deepen the crisis!
Members of the press are hereby invited.
Contact:
Castro Ngobese, National Spokesperson - 083 627 5197
