Zwelinzima Vavi

Zwelinzima Vavi a close ally of ANC President Jacob Zuma has been pushing for the South African government to take a tougher line on Mugabe and the disputed elections as well as being openly critical of President Thabo Mbeki’s policy of ‘quiet diplomacy’...

South Africa’s unions re-entered the fray on 22 April with a statement from the General Secretary of the Congress of SA Trades Unions Zwelinzima Vavi describing Mugabe’s government as illegitimate and backing the dockworkers’ blocking of the arms shipments...

The General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) Zwelinzima Vavi condemned Manuel’s budget as ‘business as usual’ objecting especially to its retention of a budget surplus of 0...

The first two epithets were for Zuma the second two for the SA Communist Party's General Secretary Blade Nzimande and Cosatu's Zwelinzima Vavi...

The General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) Zwelinzima Vavi immediately replied that ‘the poor unemployed and casual workers are worse off in the democracy than during apartheid’...

Cosatu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said the union federation had a ‘class interest’ in influencing the ANC’s conference and would pick ‘pro-working class’ names for the top six leadership positions and lobby for them in branches and provinces...

The General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions Zwelinzima Vavi won a standing ovation for a rousing speech calling on the SACP and Cosatu to be more 'aggressive'...

On 28 January Cosatu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi launched a 'Jobs and Poverty' campaign to include a series of strikes in alliance with the South African Council of Churches and South African Coalition of Non-Governmental Organisations...

Yet his supporters led by Cosatu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi encouraged him to run a victory lap around the hall...

The team will be led by ANC Secretary General Kgalema Motlanthe and Cosatu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi...