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ANA reports that former general secretary of the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu), Zwelinzima Vavi, on Thursday took his new South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) on a roadshow to Mpumalanga.
He addressed hundreds of people during Saftu’s shop steward council held at the Civic Centre in Witbank, Mpumalanga. The occasion was also the launch of Saftu in the province. The federation was first launched nationally in Gauteng two weeks ago. Vavi is the convenor of Saftu’s national steering committee. He slammed the government’s R350 a day national minimum wage, saying it was not enough for workers to live on. Saftu is made up of 21 unions, which include the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa), the Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) and the SA Policing Union (Sapu). Numsa’s Mpumalanga provincial chairperson, Xolisa Posiso, is also Saftu’s interim chairperson in the province.
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