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COSATU VICTORIES REPORT:  Through grounding COSATU in the masses we have survived the storms and and all kinds of weather and came out more united and wiser with clarity of purpose. Our history is a history of class war, it is decorated with victories born from the brave struggles of the working class. We have fought the apartheid regime to death with the same vigour we are currently fighting the democratic government when they adopt policies aimed at leaving the working people high and dry. Read Entire Report Here

36th ANNIVERSARY OF COSATU: The federation was lauched in December 1985 after four years of unity talks between unions opposed to apartheid and committed to a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa. at the lauch we represented less than half a million workers organised in 33 unions. WATCH FORMATION OF COSATU VIDEO

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Elijah Barayi’s memory lives on

When Elijah Barayi was elected as Cosatu president at the federation’s launch in 1985, he brought with him years of struggle dating back to the 1950s. At the time he was 55 years old, the vice-president of Num and a personnel assistant at the Blyvooruitzicht mine. Born in 1930 in the Eastern Cape town of […]