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Afrique du Sud : Déclaration pour le 10e Congrès du NUMSA

NUMSA — 2017-01-07T04:03:00Z

Le plus grand syndicat sud-africain, l'Union nationale des travailleurs de la métallurgie d'Afrique du Sud (NUMSA), a tenu son 10e congrès national du 12 au 15 décembre 2016 au Cap. Y participèrent 1063 délégués ayant le droit de vote représentant 340'000 salariés. Le NUMSA considère que 22 ans après 1994 la situation de la majorité noire relève d'un « statut colonial ».
Prenant appui sur la domination socio-économique de la population blanche – représentant 12% des habitants – le NUMSA (…)

- Afrique du sud / syndicalisme

NUMSA's Political Perspectives on the Crisis of Leadership in the ANC and SA

NUMSA — 2016-05-14T03:35:00Z

“Demanding Zuma must fall without adding that neoliberal monopoly capitalism must fall and that the Freedom Charter and Socialism Must Rise is just class suicide, with nothing that the working class can gain at the moment.” (Karl Cloete, NUMSA Deputy General Secretary, December 2015) NUMSA 20 April 2016
A. Corruption in South Africa and the role of the ANC and its alliance
1. By December 2013, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) completely wrote off the ANC and (…)

- Afrique du sud / syndicalisme

NUMSA secretary addresses COSATU EC

NUMSA — 2014-11-18T04:42:00Z

This speech was made by Numsa General secretary to the Cosatu EC on 7 November 2014, before his union was expelled from the confederation.
Comrades,
I stand here as the General Secretary of the biggest affiliate of this federation, as a founding member at the Congress of 1985. I will be reminding comrades here of our common history.
I stand here because the Central Executive Committee of this federation has offered Numsa an opportunity to explain to you why we should not be expelled or (…)

- Afrique du sud / syndicalisme

Afrique du sud : Numsa NEC Press Statement On the Crisis In Cosatu

NUMSA — 2014-11-10T04:33:00Z

When Cosatu was born in 1985, the federation brought together many different trade unions with different organisational, political and administrative cultures and traditions.
From 1981, it took four long hard years to emerge from the unity talks with the establishment of the largest federation in South Africa in December 1985.
The Cosatu we formed, over its 29 years of existence, has grown and been united, by the following values :
1. Cosatu is an independent, fearless and democratic (…)

- Afrique du sud / communiqués partis amis et associations, Analyse

Afrique du sud : NUMSA fully supports COSATU`s campaign on e-Toll and burning of e-Tags

NUMSA — 2014-10-29T04:01:00Z

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) on behalf of its 349 000 members fully supports the rolling mass action that will be taking place tomorrow Saturday 18 October 2014, as organised by our militant and fighting federation – the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), geared towards exerting popular and mass pressure on the fading ANC-led government to scrap the implementation of e-tolls on Gauteng Highways.
Our principled rejection of the implementation of (…)

- Afrique du sud / communiqués partis amis et associations

Afrique du sud : NUMSA fully backs strike by CWU at SA Post Offices

NUMSA — 2014-10-19T03:51:00Z

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) on behalf of its 349 000 members pledges its unwavering support and unflinching solidarity with the striking SA Post Offices workers led by our reliable ally, militant, class orientated and fighting Communication Workers Union (CWU). NUMSA calls on the SA Post Office management to concede to the legitimate and genuine demands of workers. We strongly believe that the demands of the workers can be met by the SA Post Office (…)

- Afrique du sud / communiqués partis amis et associations, luttes ouvrières

Magnifique !

NUMSA — 2014-08-15T03:13:00Z

South African workers from National Union of Metalworkers sing solidarity with Gaza in Port Elizabeth Afrique du Sud :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osCe3-OZu64

- Afrique du sud

NUMSA calls for the immediate expulsion of the Israeli ambassador in South Africa, Arthur Lenk

NUMSA — 2014-07-24T03:54:00Z

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) is outraged at the Israeli Defence Force's bombing of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, and the ongoing administrative detentions, house raids, and murder of Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
We reject the Israeli Apartheid State's pretext that the military attacks in Gaza are acts of self-defence.
We lend our unequivocal support to the Palestinian people in Gaza as they face and resist the military nuclear (…)

- Afrique du sud / communiqués partis amis et associations, solidarité

South Africa : Declaration of Numsa Special National Congress NUMSA

NUMSA — 2014-01-06T04:28:00Z

Declaration
1. Introduction
Numsa's Special National Congress convened from December 17 to December 20, 2013. It was attended by 1,200 delegates representing 338,000 metalworkers from 50 Locals throughout the provinces of South Africa. Numsa was proud to announce in the Congress that it is the biggest union in the history of the African continent. In the last 17 months, since our 9th Congress in Durban, we have grown from 300,000 members to 338,000 members. We are ahead of schedule in (…)

- Afrique du sud / syndicalisme

Afrique du Sud : NUMSA supports ANC WL Mini-Skirts march against Women Abuse !

NUMSA — 2012-02-27T05:06:00Z

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) in Jack Charles Bezuindehout Region (formerly Wits Central) fully supports the ANC Women's League's (ANCWL) organised march on mini-skirts taking place tomorrow Friday 17 February 2012.
The ANCWL march on mini-skirts should not be de-linked from the broader class struggles to defeat Capitalism, because Capitalism as a system is inherently immoral, sexist and reduces women into cheap sexual commodities for men's pleasure or (…)

- Afrique du sud / Féminisme