SASAWU – CWU – FAWU – SAFPU – DENOSA – PAWUSA – NUMSA - SACCAWU
Statement on the Compulsory Convening of a Special National Congress by COSATU
10th May 2015
Since its last Congress in 2012, COSATU has been paralysed by internal fighting in the Central Executive Committtee (CEC). This fight has since seen Numsa expelled and Comrade Zwelinzima Vavi dismissed from COSATU.
The paralysis and expulsion could never have happened if Mr.Sdumo Dlamini had heeded the call by the 9 unions which had correctly petitioned him to call for a Special National Congress (SNC) in 2013.
The call for a Special National Congress was and remains important because only the actual ordinary members of COSATU affiliates, through their delegates in a Special Congress could resolve all the problems the federation found itself confronting, soon after its Congress in 2012.