Taking COSATU Today Forward, 16 September 2025 #CosatuCC2025
Norman Mampane
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Taking COSATU Today Forward
‘Whoever sides with the revolutionary people in deed as well as in word is a revolutionary in the full sense’-Maoo
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16 September 2025
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Contents
- Workers Parliament: Back to Basics!
- COSATU holds 8th Central Committee
- COSATU 8th Central Committee Livestream
- South Africa
- COSATU President Zingiswa Losi address 8th COSATU Central Committee
- International-Workers’ Solidarity!
- Bangladesh’s shipbreaking yards remain danger zones
- The World Federation of Trade Unions calls for a global solidarity week with the heroic people of Palestine.
- Belarus: Trade union Leaders Aliaksandr Yarashuk and Hennadz Fiadynich released
Workers’ Parliament-Back2Basics
COSATU holds 8th Central Committee
Zanele Sabela, COSATU National Spokesperson, 15 September 2025
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) will hold its Central Committee from 15 to 18 September at the Anew OR Tambo Hotel in Benoni, Ekurhuleni, under the theme, “Building Working Class Unity for Economic Liberation Towards Socialism”.
More than 400 delegates comprising the leadership of the Federation and its Affiliates, shop stewards and workers from across the country and various sectors will gather to deliberate on policy and organisational challenges and solutions as COSATU prepares to hold its elective Congress in September 2026.
COSATU President Zingiswa Losi will deliver the opening address prior to the Central Committee receiving messages of support from ANC President, Cyril Ramaphosa, and South African Communist Party General Secretary, Solly Mapaila, and South African National Civic Organisation General Secretary, Mike Soko.
The Central Committee convenes at a time when the country faces grim economic prospects with unemployment at a crisis level of 42.9%, and youth unemployment at more than 72%. The country is plagued by widening inequality, worsening poverty levels, entrenched crime and corruption, not to mention struggling public and municipal services.
Meantime the full impact of the 30% tariffs imposed on South African exports to the US is yet to be felt even as major employers such Glencore and ArcelorMittal intend to retrench workers.
Gains worth noting, on the other hand, include the National Minimum Wage which has increased by 44% since inception in 2019.
The Two-Pot Pension system which came into effect on 1 September 2024 and has put R60 billion into the hands of more than 3,5 million workers struggling with debt.
Issued by COSATU
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COSATU 8th Central Committee Livestream
Day 1 (Monday - 15 Sep)
https://youtube.com/live/uxHueFx6RfI?feature=share
Day 2 (Tuesday - 16 Sep)
https://youtube.com/live/IHSq7Oz34mE?feature=share
Day 5 (Friday - 19 Sep)
https://youtube.com/live/gS32xH7gZBk?feature=share
COSATU President Zingiswa Losi address 8th COSATU Central Committee
Zingiswa Losi, COSATU President, September 15, 2025
1st Deputy President, Mike Shingange,
Leadership of the Federation and Affiliates,
Leadership of our alliance partners, the ANC, SACP and SANCO,
Leadership of our sister federations,
Distinguished guests from home and overseas,
Most importantly the membership of the Federation of Elijah Barayi and Ray Alexander,
Before I commence let us remember those giants of the liberation movement and the Federation who have passed on since we last met at Congress in 2022, including the founding President and General Secretary of SADTU, Membathisi Mdladlana and Randall Van Der Heever; former FAWU General Secretary Katishi Masemola, and Ministers Pravin Gordhan and Tito Mboweni, amongst many others.
Comrades we meet here today at a defining moment for workers in South Africa, on our continent, and across the Global South and indeed the entire world.
The question before us – as Vladimir Lenin once asked – is simple yet profound: What is to be done?
Who we are and why we exist
COSATU was not born for comfort; it was born for battle, to champion the needs of workers and advance working-class struggles. Our task has never been about survival, but about transformation — transforming workplaces, communities, and society itself.
We exist because the working class needs a shield and a spear: a shield to protect against exploitation, and a spear to advance the cause of justice.
We have come far indeed from Durban 1985. Today ours is an internationally respected constitutional democracy, underpinned by the clarion call of a South Africa that belongs to all who live in it, Black and White.
No longer do workers need to fear being shot and detained by the police for exercising their fundamental right to withhold their labour and to go on strike. Today that and many other rights are enshrined in our hard-won, progressive Constitution and labour laws.
We have emerged from the days when workers would be paid a slave wage and consigned to the most menial of jobs with no prospects of a better life merely because of the colour of their skin and their gender.
Today employers are compelled by the Employment Equity, National Minimum Wage and Basic Conditions of Employment Acts to respect workers’ hard-won rights to dignity.
We have travelled far from the days when the state and all its machinery and resources were geared to enriching a minority at the expense of the majority. Today with all of the challenges and own goals of the democratic state, 60% of the Budget is spent investing in working-class communities.
Today, the cause of the emancipation of the working class faces new and brutal tests. Many of our hard-won gain achieved through the sacrifices of Gert Sibande and the leadership of JB Marks, are under severe threat and if we are not careful may be lost.
The reality facing workers and their families
Across many economic sectors, workers are being stripped of their dignity through job losses. At Goodyear, ArcelorMittal, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Glencore — factories and foundries are closing, production is shifting, and livelihoods are being torn.
Each retrenchment is not just a statistic; it is a family left without bread or electricity, the loss of a home or car, plunging further into debt, the disruption of a child’s opportunity to study further, a community sliding deeper into despair.
This is not only about the individual workplace. It is about value chains collapsing — from suppliers to transport and logistics, to local shops. When one sector bleeds, the economy haemorrhages. Ghost towns are created where the only economy left are a few farms, taverns and sex workers, struggling public and municipal services and SASSA pay points.
When the economy weakens, the state follows: wages of public servants shrink, social grants are threatened, health and education services are starved. Farm workers, domestic workers, and taxi drivers — already on the margins — are further denied the dignity of a real living wage.
Some falsely claim that COSATU and workers are an elite. Yet they forget that it is workers who carry this economy, from the mine workers who dig our mineral wealth and the factory workers who sew our clothes and assemble our cars, to the farm workers who create the food we eat to the teachers who educate our children, the police who protect the vulnerable and the health workers who nurse the sick.
Our critics are blind to the reality that workers’ wages often do not keep pace with inflation, that each worker supports on average seven relatives, that workers are drowning in debt to increasingly unaffordable electricity, transport and the cost of living.
This is the lived experience of the working class in 2025.
We must also recognise that these realities are not gender neutral. Women workers remain concentrated in the lowest paid and most precarious jobs and continue to face the gender wage gap that devalues their labour. Whilst the law demands equal pay for equal work and prohibits unfair discrimination, too many women in our banks, our supermarkets and our hotels will tell you a different story and it is not pretty.
Beyond their paid work, women carry the unpaid burden of care in households and communities, holding together families in times of crisis. Without maternity protection, childcare support, and parental rights, women are forced into a double shift of exploitation.
The fight for a living wage must also be a fight for recognition of this unpaid labour, and for a stronger social wage that supports all workers and their families.
Violence and harassment in the world of work remain daily threats. After relentless campaigns by this Federation of Nana Abrahams and Violet Seboni, government led by our Alliance Partners, ratified Convention 190 prohibiting sexual harassment and violence at the workplace but all too many women domestic, farm and restaurant workers will tell you about the trauma that they encounter from male bosses and colleagues and customers. Even we here in the trade union movement are not immune from this shame.
Parliament in 2021 overhauled our criminal legislation to escalate the war against gender-based violence in our homes, work and communities. Yet have we done our bit as the trade union movement to make sure our members are aware of their rights and obligations? Are teachers, health workers and police officers empowered to win this war?
Global trade, tariffs, and the Green Transition
Comrades, these crises are not isolated. They are shaped by global currents. Tariffs and trade agreements are not abstract — they are political weapons. They protect the profits of the industrialised North while exploiting and risking the jobs of the South.
Up to 100 000 South African manufacturing and agricultural jobs, from citrus farms of Limpopo to the clothing factories of Cape Town and the motor-manufacturing plants of Gqeberha and Buffalo City are now at risk due to the global tariff crisis and the 30% tariffs imposed on South African exports to the United States, the world’s largest economy.
These require not only smart negotiations at the highest level of government, but also an affirmation of the importance of multilateralism and most critically to address the many structural barriers inhibiting our economy and the expansion of trading opportunities across the world, and in particular Africa and Asia.
And then there is the energy transition. Yes, we accept that the future must be green. But if the transition destroys more jobs than it creates, then it is not just. A “Just Transition” must mean justice: for miners in Limpopo, Mpumalanga and the North West, for communities eMalahleni and Thabazimbi, for autoworkers in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, for the youth searching for a better future.
We must demand energy democracy: that our resources, our minerals, our sun and wind, benefit our people and not multinational corporations. COSATU must champion NUM’s long standing and bold call for worker and community owned generation capacity.
A just transition must speak to creating new economic sectors and decent jobs for workers, from the waste pickers in our streets to the recycling of plastics and metals. It must speak to investing in the skills of workers, not only for the needs of the economy of today but also that of a tomorrow that will be increasingly dominated by the 4th industrial revolution and artificial intelligence.
This necessitates a thorough interrogation into the education crisis from the overcrowding of our classrooms to the wastage and corruption in the SETAs, to the low graduation rate of our TVETs, to our increasingly unaffordable universities. The Freedom Charter spoke to opening the doors of learning and culture. We have come far, but we have much more to do to make this a lived reality for the child in Phillipi and the worker in Madibeng.
The importance of COSATU’s unity
Against these challenges, one truth stands tall: divided, workers fall; united, workers rise. COSATU’s strength has always been its unity. Our unity is the most powerful weapon we have to confront retrenchments, exploitation, and poverty.
From our founding, we have upheld the principle that the Federation must be a home for all workers. We recognised that workers may hold different political affiliations, but what unites us is our class and our common struggle. It was this principle that allowed COSATU to withstand repression, divisions, and attempts to weaken the labour movement.
To maintain that unity today, we must continue to put workers first, above party loyalties, ensuring that COSATU remains the voice and home of the entire working class.
This demands that we recruit in every factory, restaurant, hospital, police station, military base and mine. Yet we seem to be afraid to venture outside our comfort zones. Over 10 000 jobs have been created in the call centre, where is our plan to recruit them? When are we going to recognise that Uber and taxi drivers need the protection of COSATU?
We have adopted a vision of what COSATU should look like in the next decade. Where are our recruitment drives to take us from 1.4 million back to 2 million by our next congress? Are we engaging the various splinter unions that weaken the strength of workers to join our Affiliates and realise the vision of Elijah Barayi of one industry, one union, one country, one federation?
Whilst we unashamedly champion the cause of workers’ unity, we must be principled. When COSATU and our Affiliates are under attack, we will respond and do so decisively. We will defend this Federation of Chris Dlamini and Dora Tamana without fear or favour.
We must strengthen our engagement with communities in mining towns of Mpumalanga, where the Just Energy Transition is already displacing thousands and the smelters and plants being shut down across rural towns. We must organise with rural communities in the Eastern Cape, linking the struggles of farm workers and the unemployed with the battles we wage in Nedlac and Parliament.
Our cause is not only to defend jobs but to fight for a new economy — one that prioritises people over profit, dignity over exploitation, sustainability over destruction.
It must be one that provides a pathway towards the goal of a socialist society from our campaigns for a living wage and decent work for all to reindustrialising our economy and enabling workers to own the means of production, to providing universal healthcare through the National Health Insurance and ensuring access to education from our schools to our universities and laying the foundations for comprehensive social security.
COSATU at 40
In December we celebrate 40 years of COSATU. From our founding in 1985, through the dark days of apartheid and into democracy, COSATU has been the shield and spear of the working class. These four decades teach us a vital lesson: the most difficult moments in our history came when the bonds of unity within the Federation were weakened.
When we stood together, we overcame repression, division, and attacks on workers’ rights. Today, we once again face a profound test — to safeguard the cohesion of the Federation and to draw on our collective strength in the face of the most challenging struggles confronting the working class. If we remain united, if we hold firm to solidarity, then no matter how heavy the storm, we can face whatever lies ahead.
We must reflect on how we are going to organise the unorganised, to rebuild CEPPWAWU, CWU and other struggling Affiliates. We cannot be complacent with militant slogans when we see the state of many Affiliates and Locals. COSATU was launched as a fighting Federation and that it must remain.
When we celebrate at Dobsonville on the 6th of December, we must ensure that there is not a single empty seat, that not only can Soweto but the entire nation feel that COSATU lives, COSATU leads!
Women’s Herstories
The COSATU Women’s Herstories Project is a landmark initiative to mark 40 years of our Federation by documenting and celebrating the lives and struggles of 40 women who built COSATU from its earliest days to the present.
Later this year, COSATU will launch the Women’s Herstories Project: to mark 40 years of our Federation by documenting and celebrating the lives and struggles of 40 women who built COSATU from its earliest days to today. These stories remind us that COSATU’s victories are not only found in resolutions, but in the courage of women workers who led strikes, challenged discrimination, demanded parental rights and maternity protection, and fought against violence and harassment long before laws recognised these struggles.
This project honours workers courage, resilience, and vision, while ensuring that new generations of shop stewards can draw strength and lessons from their example.
As this gathering of the COSATU Central Committee reflects on the implementation of COSATU’s resolutions, the Women’s Herstories remind us that resolutions only come alive when they are carried by organised workers, with women workers at the centre of struggle, leadership, and renewal.
COSATU is a Federation founded upon the principles of internationalism and solidarity
Our liberation was aided in no small way to the safe harbour that the workers of Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique and other frontline states provided the liberation movement. It was won through the sacrifices of the people of Angola, the internationalist brigades of Cuba and the solidarity of the Soviet Union, Scandinavia, the workers and students’ movements across Europe, the United States and elsewhere.
Today we must continue to show that same principled solidarity to the people of Cuba, Venezuela, Western Sahara, eSwatini and most of all Palestine where thousands are dying and subjected to the most cruel human rights violations daily.
Alliance and political direction
Comrades, we also meet at a time when the Alliance faces its own tests, even existential. Our unity with the ANC, SACP, and SANCO has always been rooted in the struggle for a National Democratic Society. But unity is not a slogan — it must be a living practice.
We must elevate the Alliance to be a vehicle that delivers for workers and the poor, not a platform of convenience for politicians.
We love the ANC of Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela. We love the SACP of Joe Slovo and Chris Hani. We need our Alliance Partners to resolve their challenges and to engage the Federation on these. We need the Alliance to be united and radically reconfigured to ensure that it is the anchor of government the centre of political direction for the nation.
We need both the ANC and the SACP to appreciate the unity of the Federation. Do not divide workers or COSATU comrades. This is a unity that has taken workers decades to build. It has been severely tested at times. We cannot afford at this time when the National Democratic Revolution is under such severe strain nor when workers are under siege on so many fronts, to be divided.
We have seen the ANC splinter and shed votes each election over the past two decades, yet if we examine the collective votes of all these parties it speaks to our historic 60% plus base. We need a plan to reunite the liberation movement not to further fragment it. There is no transformation that can take place when you are a 40% or worse less party.
This cleansing and renewal of the movement must be accelerated if we are to ensure that the Alliance emerges victorious in the 2026 local government elections.
Equally we must insist that the budgets and bills government tables before Nedlac and Parliament speak to the daily lives of our people: ending unemployment, ensuring decent wages, and uplifting women and youth.
We must not be shy to claim our victories
It is natural to dwell on our disappointments and correct to examine where we went wrong, but we must not lose sight of the many victories we have won against all odds.
We must remember the wise words of Amilcar Cabral “Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children”.
Since we held our 2022 National Congress, we have pushed the National Minimum Wage up by more than 20% giving relief to 6 million vulnerable workers.
The Compensation of Occupational Injuries and Diseases Amendment Act has come into effect covering 900 000 domestic workers for the first time and increasing protections for all workers, in particular women. The Employment Equity Amendment Act has come into effect advancing the transformation of our workplaces and requiring employers to do more to breakdown the barriers of discrimination.
Parliament has passed the Basic Education Laws Amendment Act further opening the doors of learning to the poor. The National Health Insurance Act laying the foundation towards universal healthcare and the Expropriation Act enabling government to accelerate land reform have been assented to by President Matamela Ramaphosa.
Last September the Two Pot Pension Reforms initiated by SACTWU and COSATU came into being releasing over R60 billion into the pockets of more than 3.5 million highly indebted workers whilst boosting savings in the long run.
The Companies Amendment Act Regulations are being drafted to compel companies to disclose their finances to workers and unions as well as their pay gap as part of naming and shaming those who still embrace apartheid wage gaps.
COSATU has shown time and again, that it is a Federation that does not lament, but delivers. When others chant slogans, we deliver solutions.
Lenin challenged us on what is to be done?
First, we must reassert COSATU’s identity: we are the voice of workers, the home of the working class, and the conscience of the nation.
Second, we must campaign relentlessly against job losses, wage theft, gender-based violence and harassment, and the erosion of rights. No retrenchment should be uncontested. No sector should be abandoned.
Third, we must engage globally as part of the Global South, refusing to be dictated to by those who thrive on our poverty while exploiting our minerals.
Fourth, we must build deeper unity with communities — the unemployed, the youth, professionals without work, women in informal economies. COSATU must not be a fortress; it must be a movement of the people.
Fifth, we must demand recognition of unpaid labour, expansion of the social wage, childcare support and parental rights for all workers.
Lastly, we must defend and strengthen the Alliance as a revolutionary tool, but always with clarity of purpose: COSATU’s loyalty is to workers first.
Comrades, this Central Committee must leave here not only with resolutions, but with conviction and clarity. The working class is watching. The nation is waiting. The continent is listening.
Let us rise to the moment. Let us educate, organise, and mobilise. Let us lead with unity, dignity, and courage.
Forward to the struggle of workers! Forward to a united COSATU!
Forward to a just transition and a new economy!
Amandla!
International-Solidarity
Bangladesh’s shipbreaking yards remain danger zones
15 September, 2025
Despite the Hong Kong Convention’s entry into force earlier this year, serious workplace accidents continue to occur in Bangladesh’s shipbreaking yards, raising urgent concerns about the lack of real change on the ground.
In the first week of September alone, two major incidents were reported from Chattogram. On 3 September, a worker at Chittagong Steel’s yard sustained severe head injuries and remained in intensive care for three days at Chattogram Medical College and Hospital. Days later, on 7 September, another worker was seriously injured while cutting metal at Jamuna yard. Earlier in August, a powerful blast occurred at King Steel’s yard, which left two workers with severe burns.
These repeated accidents underscore the urgent need to ensure that the promises of the Hong Kong Convention (HKC) are translated
into reality on the ground. HKC was ratified by Bangladesh in 2023 and came into force in June 2025. While the Convention represents a critical first step towards safer yards, shipbreaking in Bangladesh continues to harm workers’ lives due to negligence, poor
enforcement of rules and lack of employer accountability.
Ashutosh Bhattacharya, IndustriALL South Asia regional secretary, said:
“The industry must move beyond paper compliance and ensure that shipbreaking yards truly become safe workspaces. Without
genuine commitment from employers, effective government inspection and strong worker participation, Bangladesh’s shipbreaking industry will remain among the world’s deadliest industries despite the historic ratification of the Hong Kong Convention.”
On 10 September, IndustriALL organized a roundtable in Chattogram with affiliated unions, government representatives and employers’ association, reiterating the urgent need for trade union inclusion in the governance of the shipbreaking industry, particularly
in the functioning of the Bangladesh Ship Recycling Board. The meeting called for the creation of a comprehensive worker database, the right to access information and recognition of trade union rights. Affiliates continue to advocate for the registration of
unions under the group of establishments and streamlined processes to establish a trade union registration office in Chattogram.
Walton Pantland, IndustriALL shipbuilding and shipbreaking director, said:
“The safety crisis in shipbreaking needs to be addressed urgently. The reputation of Bangladesh as a safe destination for
end-of-life ships is on the line and if the situation does not improve, the industry will lose out to competing countries. The best way to improve the situation is to involve workers through joint health and safety committees.”
IndustriALL is in discussion with the ILO and GIZ to initiate a pilot programme on social security and employment injury benefits for shipbreaking workers in Bangladesh, similar to the ready-made garments sector. The employers' association also expressed its
support for the initiative and urged the government to expedite its rollout.
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Belarus: Trade union Leaders Aliaksandr Yarashuk and Hennadz Fiadynich released
13 September 2025
The International Trade Union Confederation welcomes the release of Aliaksandr Yarashuk, Chair of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions (BKDP) and ITUC Vice-President, and Hennadz Fiadynich, former head of the Belarusian Radio and Electronics Industry Workers’ Union (REP).
Aliaksandr Yarashuk, 73, had been imprisoned since April 2022 and was serving a four-year sentence. Hennadz Fiadynich, 66, was also imprisoned in 2022 and sentenced to nine years.
Their release forms part of a group of 52 political prisoners who were freed today.
While this is a positive step, we remain deeply concerned about the many other trade unionists still imprisoned for exercising their fundamental rights.
The ITUC stands in solidarity with the independent trade union movement in Belarus and reiterates its call for respect of freedom of association and workers’ rights.
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BY CENTRAL WFTU, 09 SEPT 2025
The ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the continuous ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the murderous Zionist state of Israel, the use of hunger as a weapon of war, the expansion of its terrorist activities in the West Bank with murders, arrests, and displacement of Palestinians from their historic land, are actions that create aversion in global public opinion and are in clear conflict with every notion of humanity and respect for human life.
Nevertheless, Israel’s murderous aggression not only continues unabated but is escalating, provoking the feelings of world public opinion, which watches with embarrassment the brutality and cynicism with which the Zionist, murderous Israeli state behaves.
The Israeli government’s decision to escalate military operations with the aim of completely occupying the entire Gaza Strip is yet another crime to be added to the long list of crimes against humanity and violations of international law that have been committed for decades against the Palestinian people.
Over the past two years, more than 65000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 150,000 have been injured, with the vast majority being civilians, children, women, doctors and health workers, journalists, and aid workers, including UN personnel.
Despite the outcry and outright rejection by the Palestinian people and all Arab governments, Trump’s plan to uproot the people of Gaza by force in order to build a “Middle East Riviera” over the homes and dead bodies of Palestinians is provocatively back on the table.
It is clear that the cynicism and provocativeness of the Israeli state is maintained and fueled by the tolerance and unconditional support of the US and its allies in the EU and NATO, who, despite recent attempts by some of them to distance themselves from Israel’s inhumane and murderous behavior, cannot be forgiven for having consistently supported the aggression and expansionism of the Israeli state in every way possible.
Bearing in mind that the concentration of Israeli troops for the new offensive to occupy Gaza has begun and a new bloodbath of innocent people has essentially been announced, the World Federation of Trade Unions, based on the principles of solidarity and internationalism, has decided to declare a global week of solidarity with the Palestinian people from 15 to 22 of September, 2025.
The working class will not remain silent in the face of the atrocities committed by the Israeli state.
Our message is crystal clear: the heroic Palestinian people are not alone in their struggle. The affiliates and friends of the WFTU will continue to fight on the frontline to strengthen and reinforce solidarity with the heroic Palestinian people through demonstrations and mobilizations, blocking arms shipments to Israel, participating in boycott actions, participating in humanitarian aid mobilizations, and occupying squares and streets with demonstrations. We are proud that the flags of Palestine have been flying alongside those of the WFTU from the very beginning.
Our struggle will not end until the Palestinian people are free and living in peace. Therefore, we call on all affiliates and friends of the WFTU, workers around the world, to intensify their solidarity this week with demonstrations, rallies, and events, and take to the streets and squares around the world, sending a loud and clear message of solidarity and support to the heroic Palestinian people, demanding:
– An immediate end to Israel’s military action in Gaza, and the Israeli army must return to its bases.
– An end to attacks and terrorist acts by the Israeli army and settlers in the West Bank.
– Stop the murderous blockade of Gaza and promote unhindered humanitarian aid under the responsibility of international organizations.
Let us all march together again, across the length and breadth of the world, at this critical moment for the Palestinian people, under the slogan:
– NO TO GENOCIDE AND ETHNIC CLEANSING
– FREE PALESTINE
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Norman Mampane (Shopsteward Editor)
Congress of South African Trade Unions
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