2018
June 4, 2019
Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000149 EndHTML:0000013118 StartFragment:0000000199 EndFragment:0000013084 StartSelection:0000000199 EndSelection:0000013084 As we have stated before, once the elections are over the ANC led government will carry out its threat […]
March 11, 2019
The South African Federation of Trade Unions – SAFTU is looking at what more legal and political steps should be taken to make the First National […]
March 11, 2019
The South African Federation of Trade Unions – SAFTU welcomes the report of the panel led by former Minister of Police, Sydney Mufamadi reviewing the Intelligence […]
March 11, 2019
Whilst SAFTU welcomes the decision of NERSA not to grant the extremely insensitive and insulting Eskom’s request to increase electricity tariffs by a staggering 17.1% for […]
December 28, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions sends a message of solidarity to all the workers of the world, to the poor and hungry, the employed […]
December 23, 2018
End of the year message from SAFTU President Mac Chavalala Revolutionary and seasonal greetings to the SAFTU leadership collective in the National Executive Committee, the provinces […]
December 20, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions is incensed by the Public Protector’s report that former sports minister Fikile Mbalula asked Yusuf Dockrat, the director of […]
December 18, 2018
SAFTU mourns the passing of Zamille Booi The South African Federation of Trade Unions is deeply saddened by the passing of Zamile Booi, in a road […]
December 13, 2018
The poor of our country are suffering! A human calamity is unfolding! The difference is that this is not making headlines because the poor who are […]
December 11, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions laments the fact that despite all the empty promises from the Jobs Summit employment has declined even further in […]
December 11, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions salutes the workers of France who have been protesting in their hundreds of thousands against President Emmanuel Macron’s ‘government […]
December 10, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions congratulates the Treatment Action Campaign on the 20th anniversary of its launch on 10 December 1998. We join them […]
December 7, 2018
The South Africa Federation of Trade Unions has noted with disgust President Ramaphosa’s announcement of the implementation date of the poverty national minimum wage. It is […]
December 7, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions is deeply alarmed at the latest massive crisis at Eskom. When load-shedding began in 2008 it was a national […]
December 5, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Union gives its full support to the strike by NUMSA members in the plastics sector. SAFTU can see that this […]
December 4, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions congratulates Advocate Shamila Batohi on her appointment as the new head of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), and wishes her […]
November 28, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions strongly condemns an article on the BusinessLIVE website on 27 November 2018, entitled: “Saftu rejects Numsa’s Socialist Revolutionary Workers […]
November 27, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions fully backs the 16 days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children, from 25 November to 10 […]
November 27, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions held a meeting of its National Executive Committee from 20-22 November 2018 in Johannesburg. It was attended by the […]
November 24, 2018
The South Africa Federation of Trade Unions welcomes the resignation of the Chief Executive Officer of the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), Dan Matjila. The PIC manages […]
November 24, 2018
The overwhelming majority of workers wiil not be celebrating the signing into law of the Below Poverty National Minimum Wage Act by President Ramaphosa. The South […]
November 23, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions condemns the decision by the SA Reserve Bank to raise the Repo rate – the benchmark interest rate at […]
November 19, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions will be holding a meeting of its National Executive Committee from 20-22 November 2018. Among the many important issue […]
November 17, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions condemns in the strongest terms the decision of the SABC not to broadcast the football matches between both Bafana […]
November 16, 2018
SAFTU calls on workers join march for Eskom jobs and against privatisaton The South African Federation of Trade Unions calls on workers to join the march […]
November 12, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions has noted the R15 million fine the Reserve Bank imposed on the South African branch of the Hong Kong […]
November 12, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions welcomes the opportunity to respond to Mondli Makhanya’s article – Dear Saftu, please grow up – in last Sunday’s […]
November 7, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions is outraged by the findings of the commission of inquiry into sexual harassment at the SABC. Not only did […]
November 2, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions strongly opposes the call by finance minister Tito Mboweni to shut down South African Airways (SAA), on the grounds […]
October 30, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions is appalled by yet another rise in the rate of unemployment. The statistics for the third quarter of 2018 […]
October 29, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions has noted with alarm President Ramaphosa’s comment at the Investment Conference on 26 October 2018, that “it is time […]
October 25, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions predicted that the Medium-term Budget Policy Statement would take us to hell. Finance Minister Tito Mboweni must have listened […]
October 23, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions has held the first-ever meeting of its Special Central Committee (SCC), the highest constitutional structure between National Congresses. Socio-economic […]
October 23, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions has no confidence that the Finance Minister’s first medium-term budget speech (MTBPS) will do anything other than deliver another […]
October 22, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions is alarmed by the rising number of violent and sometimes fatal attacks on workers. In just this month of […]
October 19, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions is horrified and disgusted at the report of a tow-truck owner in Mariannhill, Durban, who allegedly poured petrol over […]
October 18, 2018
The South Africa Federation of Trade Unions welcomes the President’s announcement that the promised judicial inquiry into the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), will be headed by […]
October 13, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions is outraged at the report “The Great Bank Heist”, which proves that almost R2 billion was looted from the […]
October 10, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions has noted the appointment of Tito Mboweni as Minister of Finance and hopes that he will reject the economic […]
October 9, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions welcomes the resignation of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene after he misled the people of South Africa when, in numerous […]
October 9, 2018
The outcome of the Jobs Summit on 4-5 October 2018 confirms all the worst fears of the South African Federation of Trade Unions, and vindicates its […]
October 5, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions is outraged at the train crash, in which 320 commuters were injured, including the train crews, when one PRASA […]
October 3, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions expresses its full support for the poor communities across the country who are rising in protest against poverty, unemployment, […]
October 2, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions is extremely concerned at yet another increase in the price of fuel, which will have a devastating impact on […]
October 2, 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has received an invitation from Madoda Vilakazi, the Executive Director of the National Economic Development and Labour Council […]
September 29, 2018
SAFTU has noted with concern that faceless individuals with a clear malicious intent and pursuing a political agenda not only against the SAFTU General Secretary, Zwelinzima […]