October 16, 2019
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) is appalled by Eskom’s announcement of load-shedding which will start between 9 am and 11 pm today the […]
October 14, 2019
The enduring 730 000 strong South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has yet again applied to affiliate to the National Economic Development and Labour Council […]
October 3, 2019
Karl Marx who was a revolutionary economist and a philosopher viewed the system of capitalism as immoral because it is a system in which workers are […]
September 30, 2019
Their Just Transition, And Ours Good afternoon comrades and friends! Thank you to the School of Labour and Urban Studies, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and comrades in […]
September 12, 2019
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) strongly condemns and is extremely disappointed at the crime levels which remain pervasive in the country. However, SAFTU […]
September 6, 2019
SAFTU sends its deepest condolences to the family, friends and comrades of the first President of Zimbabwe, comrade Robert Gabriel Mugabe who passed away in a […]
September 5, 2019
The South African Federation of Trade Unions expresses its anger and disgust at the recent rapes and murders of women in the Western Cape – UCT […]
September 3, 2019
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) is relieved that the South African economy dodged a recession but warns that the economy is far from […]
September 2, 2019
SAFTU is once more forced to release another statement to express its disappointment at the flaring up of attacks directed against the foreign nationals and their […]
August 30, 2019
The South African Federation of Trade Unions vehemently rejects Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s attempt to find a solution to the country’s economic crisis in his paper […]
August 29, 2019
The South African Federation of Trade Unions deplores the fact that 20 years after the passing the Employment Equity Act, the latest report of the Commission […]
August 26, 2019
The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) met in its ordinary session on the 21 – 23 August 2019 […]
August 19, 2019
“The working men have no country.” “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. Workers of all countries, unite!” (The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx […]
August 16, 2019
“The state is nothing more than the form of organisation which the bourgeois necessarily adopt both for internal and external purposes, for the mutual guarantee of […]
August 5, 2019
SAFTU is dismayed that the capitalist greed, neoliberal and austerity programmes have combined to mean that ordinary South Africans could not watch South Africa’s number one […]
August 1, 2019
South Africa is fast approaching a point of no return, which threatens to place it on the precipice of an explosion, the risk of which we […]
July 31, 2019
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) declares its solidarity with workers in Belfast, Northern Ireland, who have been occupying the Harland and Wolff shipyard […]
July 31, 2019
SAFTU condemns in the strongest term the actions of management both in Durban recently and now in Tshwane, who have provoked the workers, through their unjustifiable […]
July 30, 2019
The Chickens have come back home to roost! Neoliberalism and Austerity programmes have dismally failed the poor and the economy! Government has committed itself to a […]
