Zwelinzima Vavi

This protection of 'impunity' threatens to institute the kind of state familiar to so many other parts of Africa and against which Confederation of South African Trade Unions Secretary General Zwelinzima Vavi specifically warned in 2010 – a 'full-blown predator state'...

Cosatu's pro-Zuma faction is led by federation President Sidumo Dlamini and the anti-Zuma group by General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi...

He 'won' in the sense that his critic Cosatu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi was defeated but Cosatu also suffered...

Cosatu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has also fallen out with Zuma and sources close to him say that a sudden R50 000 tax bill in June last year was one consequence...

Cosatu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi who was suspended and then reinstated is said to be keeping his powder dry by not publicly supporting the bid for a new party (AC Vol 55 No 8 Vavi and the unions fall out)...

On the other is the federation's General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi and blue-collar unions including the largest affiliate the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA AC Vol 55 No 17 Crunch time for the unions)...

Its 220 000 members show no sign of coming back into the fold and NUMSA General Secretary Irvin Jim and his Cosatu counterpart Zwelinzima Vavi are rumoured to be considering setting up a left-wing grouping which would see Cosatu split from the Alliance and form a 'workers' party' to contest the 2019 elections (AC Vol 55 No 8 Vavi and the unions fall out)...

General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi called it a 'shocking banana republic antic'...

Cosatu Secretary General Zwelinzima Vavi recently reinstated after a year-long battle against suspension welcomed the pledge...

The immediate crisis for the Cosatu leadership was the 5 April ruling by the Johannesburg High Court against the suspension of the radical Zwelinzima Vavi as the federation's General Secretary...