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CONTESTED LEGACY
COSATU’S
EDITED BY
Sakhela Buhlungu
Malehoko Tshoaedi
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Contents
List of tables v
List of figures vii
Abbreviations and acronyms viii
Preface xi
1 A contested legacy: organisational and political challenges facing
COSATU 1
Sakhela Buhlungu and Malehoko Tshoaedi
2 The experience of conducting a longitudinal study: the COSATU
Workers’ Survey, 2008 32
Christine Bischoff and Malehoko Tshoaedi
3 COSATU, oligarchy and the consolidation of democracy in an African
context 56
Johann Maree
4 Making sense of unionised workers’ political attitudes: the (un)represen-
tation of women’s voices in COSATU 90
Malehoko Tshoaedi
5 The sociology of upward social mobility among COSATU shop stewards
110
Themba Masondo
6 COSATU, the ‘2010 Class Project’ and the contest for ‘the soul’ of
the ANC 132
Ari Sitas
7 ‘What would you do if the government fails to deliver?’: COSATU mem-
bers’ attitudes towards service delivery 147
Sarah Mosoetsa
8 COSATU’s influence on policy-making in post-apartheid South Africa:
fact and fiction 167
Grace Khunou
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9 COSATU members and strike violence: what we learn from quantitative
and qualitative data 186
Karl von Holdt
10 COSATU and internal migrant workers: old fault lines,
new dilemmas 212
Nomkhosi Xulu
11 COSATU’s attitudes and policies towards external migrants 228
Mondli Hlatshwayo
12 The trade union movement and the Tripartite Alliance:
a tangled history 259
Sakhela Buhlungu and Stephen Ellis
Appendix
Taking democracy seriously: COSATU Worker’s Survey data set 1994, 1998,
2004 and 2008 283
Contributors 305
Index 309
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List of tables
Table 1.1 Which leader represents worker interests best? (selected results
from question asked during survey in 2004 and 2008) 4
Table 1.2 How a shop steward should exercise his/her mandate (by
percentage) 21
Table 2.1 Provinces covered in the COSATU longitudinal study 34
Table 2.2 Employment by sector between 2005 and 2009 37
Table 2.3 COSATU Workers’ Survey researchers 1994, 1998, 2004 and
2008 40
Table 2.4 COSATU affiliate membership figures 2007–2011 47
Table 2.5 Age of COSATU members between 1994 and 2008 48
Table 2.6 Year in which respondents joined the unions 49
Table 2.7 Gender distribution of COSATU members 50
Table 2.8 Highest formal educational levels of COSATU members 50
Table 2.9 Occupational category as defined by companies 52
Table 2.10 Security of tenure of COSATU members 52
Table 3.1 Are you a member of the SACP? 65
Table 3.2 Which party are you going to vote for in the forthcoming
national elections? 68
Table 3.3 Cosatu has entered into an alliance with the ANC and
SACP to contest the elections. What do you think of this
arrangement? 69
Table 3.4 Classification of African regimes, end 2001 71
Table 3.5 African legislative election results, by ordinal number of
election, 1989-2006 73
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Table 3.6 South African post-transformation election results 73
Table 4.1 COSATU has entered into an alliance with the ANC and SACP.
What do you think of this arrangement? 97
Table 4.2 Do you think that this Alliance should continue and contest
the elections after 2009? 98
Table 4.3 Have any of the following services been provided or improved
since 2004 in your area? 99
Table 4.4 Which party are you going to vote for? 100
Table 4.5 When you decide to vote for a particular party, which is the
most important factor behind your decision? 100
Table 5.1 Have any of your shop stewards in the workplace been
promoted into managerial positions? 119
Table 5.2 Is it acceptable (i.e. do you approve) for shop stewards to be
promoted into management? 119
Table 7.1 Worker expectations in 1994 and assessment of access to
services, 1998, 2004 and 2008 149
Table 7.2 Perception of access to services by province, 2008 151
Table 7.3 Yes, these services have improved since 2004 elections. 152
Table 7.4 In which ONE of the following areas would you like to see
improvements after the 2009 elections? Select the most
important one only. 153
Table 7.5 Involvement in local government or community development
initiatives 155
Table 7.6 If the government to be elected fails to deliver, workers will:
(more than one possible) (percentages) 157
Table 7.7 COSATU affiliates on participation in mass action, if the
government fails to deliver (1998 to 2008) 158
Table 7.8 Participation in community protest action since 2004 by
gender 160
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Table 7.9 Have you participated in community protest action since 2004?
(by union) 161
Table 9.1 Attitudes towards violence during strikes (by COSATU
affiliate) 190
Table 10.1 Are you a migrant? 217
Table 10.2 Migrant workers by sector 217
Table 10.3 Migrant workers as a proportion of union membership 218
Table 10.4 Age categories of migrants and non-migrants 219
Table 10.5 Migrant worker by age and gender 219
Table 10.6 Proportion of migrants within each educational qualification
level 220
Table 10.7 Migrants as a proportion of COSATU members in each
occupational category (also by gender) 221
Table 10.8 Migrant workers’ security of tenure, including proportions of
migrant men and women in each category 222
Table 10.9 Service delivery: migrant worker responses by service
provision area (percentages) 223
List of figures
Figure 8.1 COSATU members’ support for the Tripartite Alliance,
1994–2008 179
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Abbreviations and acronyms
ANC African National Congress
ANCYL African National Congress Youth League
ANSA Artists for a new South Africa
AZAPO Azanian People’s Organisation
BBBEE Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment
BEE Black Economic Empowerment
CAX Coalition against Xenophobia
CAWU Construction and Allied Workers’ Union
CEPPWAWU Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied
Workers’ Union
COPE Congress of the People
COSATU Congress of South African Trade Unions
CPP Convention People’s Party
CWIU Chemical Workers’ Industrial Union
CWU Communication Workers’ Union
CWUSA Council of Workers’ Union of South Africa
DA Democratic Alliance
DENOSA Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa
FAWU Food and Allied Workers’ Union
FOSATU Federation of South African Trade Unions
GEAR Growth, Employment and Redistribution
HOSPERSA Health and Other Service Personnel Trade Union of South
Africa
HSRC Human Sciences Research Council
ILO International Labour Organisation
IMF International Monetary Fund
LRA Labour Relations Act
MAWU Metal and Allied Workers’ Union
MDC Movement for Democratic Change
NALEDI National Labour and Economic Development Institute
NEDLAC National Economic Development and Labour Council
NEHAWU National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union
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NEPAD New Partnership for Africa’s Development
NMMU Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
NPP New Patriotic Party
NUM National Union of Mineworkers
NUMSA National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa
PAC Pan-Africanist Congress
PAWUSA Public and Allied Workers’ Union of South Africa
POPCRU Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union
PPWAWU Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers’ Union
RDP Reconstruction and Development Programme
SAAPAWU South African Agriculture, Plantation and Allied Workers’
Union
SACCAWU South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’
Union
SACP South African Communist Party
SACTU South African Congress of Trade Unions
SACTWU Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union
SADC Southern African Development Community
SADNU South African Democratic Nurses’ Union
SADTU South African Democratic Teachers’ Union
SAFPU South African Football Players’ Union
SAMA South African Medical Association
SAMWU South African Municipal Workers’ Union
SARHWU South African Railway and Harbour Workers’ Union
SASAWU South African State and Allied Workers’ Union
SASBO South Africa Society of Banking Officials
SASFU South African Security Force Union
SATAWU South African Transport Workers’ Union
SATUCC Southern African Trade Union Coordinating Council
SETA Sector Education and Training Authority
StatsSA Statistics South Africa
SWOP Sociology of Work Unit
TGWU Transport and General Workers’ Union
TUC Trade Union Congress
TUCSA Trade Union Council of South Africa
UCT University of Cape Town
UDF United Democratic Front
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UDM United Democratic Movement
UFH University of Fort Hare
UIF Unemployment Insurance Fund
UJ University of Johannesburg
UKZN University of KwaZulu-Natal
UNIP United National Independent Party
UNISA University of South Africa
UP University of Pretoria
UPE University of Port Elizabeth (now NMMU)
UWC University of the Western Cape
WITS University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
WTO World Trade Organisation
ZANU-PF Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front
ZCTU Zambian Congress of Trade Unions
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