CSATU

In the best tradition of labor solidarity, South African and Australian dockworkers responded by refusing to handle Israeli cargo, and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) "call[ed] on other workers and unions to follow suit and to do all that is necessary to ensure that they boycott all goods to and from Israel until Palestine is free."

The ANC's alliance partner, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), slated the Minister and others in the ANC who supported rescinding the rights of soldiers.

This comes following the endorsement of two other national labor federations, COSATU (The Congress of South African Trade Unions) in South Africa and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions in Ireland.

The Congress of South African Trade Unions did not want Mboweni's contract to be extended when it expired this month.

Equally worrying is the potential appeasement of the hard left ANC alliance partners, Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the South African Communist Party (yes, it still exists), whose support helped secure Jacob Zuma the ANC presidency.

However, the NEHAWU memorandum addressed to MEC Sakhiwo Belot asking for leave for its members is explicit in its request, saying: 'The Congress of South African Trade Unions and its affiliates, NEHAWU included, took a decision to actively and practically participate in the 2009 election campaigns for a decisive victory of our glorious movement, the African National Congress.

SJP is following in the footsteps of many noted groups and institutions such as the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education in the UK, the Israeli group Gush Shalom, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the Canadian Union of Public Employees, and the American Friends Service Committee.

The Congress of South African Trade Unions, traditionally an ANC ally, issued a statement saying a presidential run-off with only one candidate is not a legitimate election.

"He has suffered irreparable damage, irrespective of how the election turns out." Mbeki's own party, the ruling African National Congress, and its labour ally, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, have each contradicted his analysis.

South Africa's Congress of South African Trade Unions has warned of job losses in the county's textile industry as clothing imports from China rose 480 percent since 2003.

FOSATU's "tight" federation model was adopted by FOSATU's successor, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and still informs union practices today.

There, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) not only agitated for the release of Nelson Mandela from prison, but, as the apartheid government was losing power, helped keep the country from splintering along racial and tribal lines.