COSATU Call Center Number 010 002 2590

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) has recently launched a new call center to provide much-needed assistance to workers facing labour-related challenges. This dedicated resource aims to offer support, information, and guidance to both members of COSATU-affiliated unions and unorganized workers, ensuring that they have a place to turn for help with workplace issues.

Anti-Apartheid Struggle Songs from South Africa

Hugh Masekela’s “Stimela” is a vivid picture of what it was like to be a black man during apartheid. The song is about the black men who were used as cheap labor in the mines of Johannesburg, where they worked long hours for peanuts to mine gold, and other valuable minerals. Masekela told this story of the train that all these men took from different parts of southern Africa. “Stimela” almost teleports you into that steam train­–you can feel the pain in Bra Hugh’s voice, through his poetry you can see the hoards of unhappy men who miss their families, anxious for the drudgery that awaits them.
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