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  • "Really what is the problem of this animal called COSATU?" he told The Financial Gazette weekly.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • Hence it has always supported the coming together of the various unions, as expressed to COSATU, which is a federation of different unions, as was SACTU, the predecessor of COSATU.

    ANC Today 2003

  • Hence it has always supported the coming together of the various unions, as expressed to COSATU, which is a federation of different unions, as was SACTU, the predecessor of

    ANC Today 2003

  • The writer believes it will be two divisions - one being the minority dictatorial, militant HAWKS, namely COSATU, SACP and the PAC remnant and the opposing majority, the DOVES, represented by the unemployed, the demoralised poor masses, right through to the middle and business classes of progressive, peace loving citizens.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • On your individual Unions, in SACTU, and now in this giant that you have created, called COSATU, workers have struck mighty blows and won victories for all of us.

    SPEECH BY THE DEPUTY PRESIDENT OF THE ANC, NELSON MANDELA, TO MAY DAY RALLY 1991

  • On your individual Unions, in SACTU, and now in this giant that you have created, called COSATU, workers have struck mighty blows and won victories for all of us.

    SPEECH BY THE DEPUTY PRESIDENT OF THE ANC, NELSON MANDELA, TO MAY DAY RALLY 1991

  • The Congress of South African Trade Unions, known as COSATU, said Swazi union leaders were beaten up and South African ones are being deported.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Phathizwe-Chief Zulu 2011

  • If the government did not agree to foot the bill itself, the union would not hesitate to organize "strike action and protests in the street," COSATU, which is part of a tripartite alliance led by the African National Congress, said.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • If the government did not agree to foot the bill itself, the union would not hesitate to organize "strike action and protests in the street," COSATU, which is part of a tripartite alliance led by the African National Congress, said.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • There are five of us representing COSATU, which is the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the biggest trade union accreditation inside South Africa.

    Democracy Now! 2010

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