Taking COSATU Today Forward, 10 September 2025 #CosatuCC2025
Norman Mampane
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COSATU TODAY #Cosatu scheduled to convene its ordinary 8th Central Committee next week, at Benoni #CosatuCC2025 #WorkerControl #SACTU70 #ClassStruggle “Build Working Class Unity for Economic Liberation towards Socialism” #Back2Basics #JoinCOSATUNow #ClassConsciousness |
Taking COSATU Today Forward
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10 September 2025
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Contents
- Workers Parliament: Back to Basics!
- Media Alert: Media accreditation applications for COSATU's 8th Central Committee officially open
- South Africa
- SADTU Students’ Chapter Statement on the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition Proposed Bill
- COSATU cautiously welcomes the 0.8% GDP quarterly growth rate
- International-Workers’ Solidarity!
- Eurof: WFTU strongly condemns the act of terrorism carried out against the Freedom Sumud Flotilla
Workers’ Parliament-Back2Basics
Media Alert: Media accreditation applications for COSATU's 8th Central Committee officially open
Zanele Sabela, COSATU National Spokesperson, 08 September 2025
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) will convene its 8th Central Committee meeting on the 15th -18th of September.
Held under the theme: “Building working-class unity for economic liberation towards socialism”, the four-day event will bring together around 400 members from the Federation’s affiliates, labour service organisations and international guests to amongst others, review the implementation of resolutions adopted at the previous Congress, provide political direction and focus on organisational issues ahead of the National Congress next year.
COSATU President Zingiswa Losi will deliver the keynote address with messages of support from the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP).
Details of the event are as follows:
Date: 15-18 September 2025
Venue: Anew OR Tambo Hotel (formerly The Lakes Hotel, Benoni, Ekurhuleni)
All members of the media are invited to attend, and are encouraged to apply for accreditation to cover the event.
Applications for accreditation may be submitted to mam...@cosatu.org.za or non...@cosatu.org.za with the following details:
Name:
Surname:
ID number:
Media House/Address:
Contact number/email:
Alternatively, an application form can be completed via this link:
https://forms.office.com/r/Yhyb5S6h59
Issued by COSATU
Zanele
Sabela (COSATU National Spokesperson)
Mobile: 079 287 5788 or 077 600 6639
Email: zan...@cosatu.org.za
SADTU Students’ Chapter Statement on the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition Proposed Bill
Xolani Dube, SADTU Students’ Chapter Coordinator, 10 September 2025
The South African Democratic Teachers Union Students’ Chapter (SADTU SC) note with dismay, the proposed bill by the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) that aims to blacklist individuals with student debt.
This is nothing but a sheer betrayal of a promise, and lack of commitment to the plea of an African child. The disingenuous proposed bill by DTIC is regressive, and has the ability to perpetuate a cycle of poverty.
It is a matter of fact that student debt is often unavoidable for those seeking higher education, and this bill disproportionately affects individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Rather than penalizing these students, DTIC should focus its efforts on enabling social mobility through creating more equatable educational funding and repayment options.
The strides of the DTIC have not provided a solution, but rather added to moral failure through sabotaging the National Development Plan (NDP) 2030, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1 and 8.
The Students Chapter of SADTU, calls upon the Ministry of the DTIC to scrap the offensive clause, 18(17)e, that is highly contentious and bound to cause an outcry. This clause that the Minister has downplayed as non-malicious, carries significant and rippling effects of an already vulnerable NQF 5 and above cohort.
ISSUED BY NATIONAL COORDINATOR
International-Solidarity
Eurof: WFTU strongly condemns the act of terrorism carried out against the Freedom Sumud Flotilla
by central wftu, 09 Sep 2025
The European regional office of the World Federation of Trade Unions strongly condemns the act of terrorism carried out against the Freedom Sumud Flotilla, when a boat belonging to the flotilla was hit by a drone in Tunisia in the night between 8 and 9 September. It was only by chance that there were no casualties.
The intention is clear: to prevent the humanitarian mission involving activists from over 40 countries from achieving its objectives of delivering medicines, food and water to the exhausted population of the Gaza Strip by any means necessary.
The decision to attack one of the ships before the flotilla had even departed collectively clearly shows Israel’s intentions.
In view of the escalation that began tonight, the Eurof WFTU calls on all affiliated organisations to exercise maximum vigilance, denounce the situation, and mobilise in support of the mission to protect the safety of the activists.
Eurof condemns the European Union’s stance, which states that it does not encourage the flotilla because it ‘leads to escalation’, as well as the governments that do not impose sanctions on Israel or openly denounce its intention to complete the genocide of the Palestinian people through the ground operation launched by Netanyahu.
Eurof also condemns the complicit silence of the ETUC regarding the ongoing genocide in Gaza, as well as the political cover it provides to its affiliate, the Israeli trade union Histadrut, which unreservedly supports the actions of the Israeli government.
The WFTU’s chosen slogan, ‘We refuse to work for the war’, must guide our ongoing efforts to block the transport of arms and all institutional, business and research collaboration with Israel.
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Norman Mampane (Shopsteward Editor)
Congress of South African Trade Unions
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