Zwelinzima Vavi

Cosatu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has been critical of Malema but pro-Malema Cosatu factions have cautioned him not to call for censure...

Cosatu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has similarly dismissed the call for nationalisation...

Cosatu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said in June that Cosatu feared the clique around Zuma was ‘selling South African assets’ for personal financial gain...

Campaigning by Cosatu’s General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi around Port Elizabeth is widely believed to have hurt the DA’s prospects in the Eastern Cape...

On the eve of his visit Cosatu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi told a conference of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) that the ANC might lose the Nelson Mandela Bay region of the Eastern Cape which includes its biggest city Port Elizabeth...

The Congress of South African Trade Unions worries about claims that Zuma colludes with the Guptas and launched an investigation after General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi talked of ‘the growing perception that the Gupta family is plundering resources of the country to the benefit of Duduzane’...

Cosatu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said it ignored the structural nature of youth unemployment would introduce a two-tier labour market and would be abused by unscrupulous employers to displace older workers from full-time jobs...

Last year Zwelinzima Vavi General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions infuriated the Secretary General of the governing African National Congress Gwede Mantashe by accusing a ‘predatory elite’ within the party of feeding off the state like ‘hyenas’...

On 2 June Congress of South African Trade Unions General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi called on the government to launch an investigation into Aurora Empowerment Systems and the Pamodzi Gold liquidators for what he described as looting asset-stripping and connivance...

Cosatu promptly organised a civil society summit to press for ‘pro-poor’ policies inviting the newly fired ex-ministers Nyanda and Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile but no other ANC leaders some of whom Cosatu’s General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi accused of being ‘hyaenas’ and a ‘predatory elite’...