Mbhazima shilowa biography of michael

After high school he moved to Johannesburg where he worked at the Anglo-Alpha cement company.

I met with Mbhazima Shilowa, former premier of Gauteng, general secretary of Cosatu and now convenor of the new Congress of the People Party this morning.

In , he led a strike, and started to get involved in the Trade Union Movement. In he was dismissed at Anglo- Alpha for his political activities. On 15 June Shilowa was appointed premier of Gauteng. He resigned in following the removal of Thabo Mbeki from office. He has since been expelled from the party following accusations of mismanaging parliamentary funds.

Shilowa was born on 30 April in what is now Limpopo Province.

President of Transport and General Workers Union. As a result, issues pertinent to workers, including retrenchments, rallying the unorganised, servicing of members, poaching, new ways of organising workers in light of the changing nature of the workplace and the implications for Cosatu when its members are primarily public sector workers, were neglected.

While much transformation of the workplace has occurred in the public sector, the private sector remains largely untransformed, with many workers being exploited despite a favourable labour dispensation. So it is important for Cosatu to have industrial workers in the ranks of its affiliates, or it runs the risk of becoming a public sector federation with little say on wage and industrial policies, and transformation of the workplace.

Just as in , the congress spent a lot of time debating the position to take on the ANC leadership succession. There was no discussion about what happened the last time the ANC engaged in such debates, its effect on Cosatu and any gains made in the process. Nothing was said about the challenges facing the organisation, economically and socially, and the kind of leadership needed to steer the ship forward.

While I am not a proponent of the notion that trade unions are just about gumboots and overalls, I firmly believe they are first and foremost about organising the unorganised and servicing members across the economy regardless of their political affiliations. A congress, or the parliament of workers as it is often referred to, should do an honest assessment of why an overwhelming majority of workers remain outside of organised labour despite a favourable labour regime.

Why is this tolerated in a federation that has publicly stated it is against corruption?