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Zwelinzima Vavi

Zwelinzima Vavi is the general secretary of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu).

Email: [email protected]

OPINIONISTA

Was this what we sacrificed our lives for in the struggle? A call for communities to organise midst the deindustrialisation of the Vaal triangle

by: Zwelinzima Vavi

OPINIONISTA

The messy ideological morass that has given us President Donald Trump 2.0

by: Zwelinzima Vavi

OPINIONISTA

The true history of the origins of the National Union of Mineworkers

by: Zwelinzima Vavi

OPINIONISTA

Workers of South Africa must not be fooled again by Zuma

by: Zwelinzima Vavi

OPINIONISTA

Workers must unite to support the Zondo Commission report, even in the face of a backlash from the corrupt

by: Zwelinzima Vavi

OPINIONISTA

ANC government refuses to give unemployed a basic income grant and instead affirms its commitment to neoliberal fiscal consolidation

by: Zwelinzima Vavi

OPINIONISTA

No party will significantly change the crisis of neoliberalism austerity

by: Zwelinzima Vavi

OPINIONISTA

The real state of South Africa’s still-failing capitalist economy: Parasitic, super-speculative and unpatriotic

by: Zwelinzima Vavi

Vaccine roll-out: Government won’t keep its herd immunity promise this year

South Africa, Maverick Citizen, COVID-19

Vaccine roll-out: Government won’t keep its herd immunity promise this year

by: Zwelinzima Vavi

OPINIONISTA

#FeesMustFall 2.0: Saftu will not hesitate to mobilise our 800,000-strong membership in solidarity with the students

by: Zwelinzima Vavi

Why are established trade unions comfortable with the status quo and threatened by the rise of Saftu?

Business Maverick, South Africa

Why are established trade unions comfortable with the status quo and threatened by the rise of Saftu?

by: Zwelinzima Vavi

OPINIONISTA

Mboweni must look at how SA dug itself out of the 1932 debt crisis with techniques we can learn from

by: Zwelinzima Vavi