Vavi and his supporters have been in a constant tussle with Saftu’s largest federation Numsa, which spent most of Wednesday fighting for the four suspended national office bearers to be allowed to stand for elections.
JOHANNESBURG - Zwelinzima Vavi has been re-elected general secretary of South African Federation of Trade Unions .
The results from the bruising battle for control of the labour federation following late-night elections were announced early on Thursday morning. Vavi and his supporters have been in a constant tussle with Saftu’s largest union National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa , which spent most of Wednesday fighting for the four suspended national office bearers to be allowed to stand for elections.Motshwari Lecogo and Thabo Matsose have been elected as treasurer and first deputy president respectively.
A stalemate over these officials and two others lasted several hours, with Numsa’s Irvin Jim even threatening to pull his union out of the conference.Today is a day of declarations as the conference draws to an end.
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