Taking COSATU Today Forward Special Bulletin, 21 June 2024
Norman Mampane
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Taking COSATU Today Forward Special Bulletin
‘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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Friday, 21 June 2024
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Contents
o Workers Parliament: Back to Basics!
- Media Alert: COSATU scheduled to hold a post Central Executive Committee (CEC) media briefing on Monday, 24 June 2024
o South Africa
- COSATU North West congratulates Elizabeth Mokua on her appointment to the Executive Council
- SADTU Free State welcomes the appointment of new MEC for Education
- International-Workers’ Solidarity!
- Greece: Historic Demonstration of LARCO Workers
Workers’ Parliament-Back2Basics
Media Alert: COSATU scheduled to hold a post Central Executive Committee (CEC) media briefing on Monday, 24 June 2024
Zanele Sabela, COSATU National Spokesperson, 20 June 2024
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) will hold a media briefing on Monday, 24 June 2024, to communicate the outcomes of its ordinary Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting. The three-day meeting, which took place from 18 to 20 June discussed organisational, political, and socio-economic issues affecting workers and the working class in general.
It also reflected on the results of the recent general elections and the formation of the government of national unity (GNU).
The details of the media briefing are as follows:
• Date : 24 June 2024
• Time : 11h00
• Venue : COSATU House, 110 Jorissen Street, Braamfontein.
All members of the media are invited to the briefing.
Issued by COSATU
For more information please contact:
Zanele Sabela (COSATU National Spokesperson)
Email: zan...@cosatu.org.za
Cell: 079 287 5788
South Africa
COSATU North West congratulates Elizabeth Mokua on her appointment to the Executive Council
Kopano Konopi, COSATU North West Provincial Secretary, 21 June 2024
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in the North West province congratulates Elizabeth Sempe Mokua for her appointment as Member of the Executive Council in the province.
Comrade Lizzy, as she is affectionately known, is the first woman to head up the Department of Public Works and Roads in the province.
Mokua’s appointment confirms the notion that the ANC is an organisation that recognises people based on their capabilities and not exclusively on their gender, hence she has been put in charge of a male-dominated sector.
We also believe that she has the necessary capacity to transform this critical sector to be more inclusive, as this will primarily be the measure she will be assessed against.
Comrade Lizzy is the former Provincial Chairperson of NEHAWU, and member of the COSATU, ANC and South African Communist Party Provincial Executive Committee. This makes her the embodiment of the Tripartite Alliance as she has led all three components of it.
COSATU North West is confident that she is equal to the task ahead and wishes her all the best.
Issued by: COSATU North West
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SADTU Free State welcomes the appointment of new MEC for Education
Mokholoane Bricks Moloi, SADTU Free State Provincial Secretary, 21 June 2024
The South African Democratic Teachers Union in Free State welcomes and congratulates, Dr Mantlhake Julia Maboya on her appointment as the new MEC for Education.
Dr Maboya is not new in the education sector, having served as a College Lecturer for Initial Teacher Development, the Chief Director for Curriculum in the province and later joined the Department of Basic Education as Deputy Director for Curriculum, Assessment and Examinations.
Dr Maboya is inheriting a department that has been performing exceptionally well and consistently for many consecutive years. This excellent performance has been maintained because of collaborative work of teachers, SMTs and officials across all levels.
As SADTU in the province we commit our support to the MEC and are looking forward to a meeting where she will share her vision for the department. We are looking forward to a sound working relationship with her.
ISSUED BY THE PROVINCIAL SECRETARY
International-Solidarity
Greece: Historic Demonstration of LARCO Workers
21 Jun 2024 by central wftu
The workers of LARCO held a big, amazing demonstration in Athens yesterday, with the workers and unions of Attica on their side.
https://youtu.be/IN6RgX8HaRI?si=e5XfavRrD9al2riK
In the morning unions of Attica welcomed the workers of LARCO in Athens center and with a militant march they reached in front of the Parliament.
https://youtu.be/-mF2Riyj2jQ?si=L6WjXs9r04y3-ptT
The decisiveness of the Unions forced the withdrawal of the Riot Police blockade and the workers reached the Parliament entrance.
https://youtu.be/V9qsYLxlm5o?si=VtB4LNJqM0uLmvcz
Despite the heatwave and the more than 40oC thousands of workers demonstrated for more than 12 hours protested the despicable amendment of the Government that wants to fire the LARCO workers.
At the same time unions organized solidarity actions in many cities all over Greece.
https://youtu.be/UyVywc3QZzU?si=rJ-_35Z0jBWyPvIG
https://youtu.be/AqcikxNsZro?si=JfUt_YdfLfcR0jnt
With the solidarity and support of the working class of Greece the struggle of LARCO workers continues!
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Norman Mampane (Shopsteward Editor)
Congress of South African Trade Unions
110 Jorissen Cnr Simmonds Street, Braamfontein, 2017
P.O.Box 1019, Johannesburg, 2000, South Africa
Tel: +27 11 339-4911 Direct line: 010 219-1348