Taking COSATU Today Forward Special Bulletin, 2 June 2026
Norman Mampane
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Taking COSATU Today Forward Special Bulletin
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2 July 2026
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Contents
- Workers Parliament: Back to Basics!
- COSATU Western Cape mourns 16 lives lost in N1 bus tragedy near Touwsrivier
- South Africa
- COSATU Western Cape hails Constitutional Court victory on Tafelberg site as a triumph for housing justice
- International-Workers’ Solidarity!
- Solidarity with workers in Venezuela
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COSATU Western Cape mourns 16 lives lost in N1 bus tragedy near Touwsrivier
Malvern De Bruyn, COSATU Western Cape Provincial Secretary, 02 July 2026
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is deeply saddened and shocked by the tragic bus crash that claimed the lives of 16 people on the N1 highway near Touwsrivier in the Western Cape early this morning.
According to reports, a bus carrying 78 passengers overturned, resulting in the tragic loss of life. Among the deceased are seven adult males, five adult females, and three children.
Several others sustained injuries and are receiving medical attention.
COSATU extends its sincere and heartfelt condolences to the families, friends, and colleagues who have lost their loved ones in this horrific accident. We share in your grief and pain during this difficult time. We also wish all those injured a full and speedy recovery.
The Federation is calling on the relevant authorities, including the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the Department of Transport, to conduct a thorough and urgent investigation into the circumstances that led to this catastrophe. It is critical that the cause of the accident is uncovered to prevent such tragedies from recurring on our roads.
The preliminary reports indicate that the bus was the only vehicle involved in the crash. The Federation demands that all factors, including road conditions, vehicle fitness, and driver fatigue, be thoroughly examined.
The loss of so many lives on our roads is a national tragedy that can no longer be tolerated.
COSATU reiterates its call for intensified efforts to improve road safety and enforce traffic regulations to protect the lives of all South Africans.
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COSATU Western Cape hails Constitutional Court victory on Tafelberg site as a triumph for housing justice
Malvern De Bruyn, COSATU Western Cape Provincial Secretary, 02 July 2006
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in the Western Cape welcomes with great satisfaction today’s landmark judgement by the Constitutional Court, which has declared the 2015 sale of the Tafelberg site by the DA run City of Cape Town and the Western Cape Provincial Government as unlawful and unconstitutional.
This ruling is a monumental victory for the fundamental right to adequate housing and a decisive rebuke of the misguided ideology that treats public land as mere commercial assets.
For years, COSATU has argued that strategically located, state owned land must be leveraged to undo the spatial apartheid legacy that still condemns the majority of our people to the fringes of our cities.
Today’s judgement affirms that public property exists for public good, not for private profit.
While we celebrate this legal milestone, we are outraged that yet again, the hard-earned monies of taxpayers and workers have been squandered on wasteful litigation and disastrous policy decisions by the Democratic Alliance led administrations. Instead of using this prime asset to build affordable, integrated human settlements, the City and Province chose to fight the people in Court every step of the way.
This stubbornness has come at a colossal financial cost that our cash strapped Municipalities and Provincial fiscus cannot afford.
COSATU Western Cape is therefore calling for full accountability. Heads must roll. The Officials and Political Office Bearers who pushed this unlawful sale against all legal advice and public sentiment must face consequences. This is not a witch hunt; it is a demand for good governance and fiscal discipline.
We now call on both the City of Cape Town and the Western Cape Provincial Government to immediately comply with this judgement, halt any further alienation of public land, and commence a transparent, community led process to develop the Tafelberg site into affordable, well-located housing for the working class.
The era of putting developer profits before people’s dignity must end.
Issued by COSATU Western Cape
International-Solidarity
Solidarity with workers in Venezuela
2 July, 2026
Two powerful earthquakes hit northern Venezuela on 24 June, less than a minute apart, measuring 7.2 and 7.5 on the Richter scale. These are the worst
earthquakes to strike the country in more than a century. More than 2,000 people have died and over 11,000 are injured, figures that keep rising by the day.
Tens of thousands are still missing. Rescue teams keep digging through collapsed buildings in Caracas and in the coastal state of La Guaira, the areas hit hardest, where entire neighbourhoods lie in ruins along with workplaces, hospitals and basic infrastructure.
A state of emergency is in force. The disaster is falling hardest on families and communities already made vulnerable, especially women and children, older people and workers in precarious and informal jobs.
IndustriALL Global Union stands behind the solidarity letter sent by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and joins the international labour movement in expressing its solidarity with the people of Venezuela. In moments like this, international
solidarity matters more than ever.
The affected region is home to major energy, petrochemical and manufacturing activities, industries in which IndustriALL, through its affiliates, represents workers in over 130 countries.
IndustriALL has no affiliated unions in Venezuela. Our solidarity nevertheless goes out to all workers in these industries and to the Venezuelan trade union movement. Their members have lost family, homes and livelihoods and many workplaces are damaged or have
stopped operating altogether.
The earthquakes hit a people who had already endured a great deal. Millions were struggling to meet basic needs long before the disaster and at the start of the year IndustriALL condemned the violation of the rule-based international order and its consequences
for Venezuela’s sovereignty and its people. Crisis has now been compounded by disaster.
IndustriALL reaffirms its solidarity with workers and communities affected and expresses its deepest condolences to the families who have lost loved ones.
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Norman Mampane (Shopsteward Editor)
Congress of South African Trade Unions
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