SOUTH Africa’s largest public service union, the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu), has elected four new leaders to replace those going to Parliament, one of whom warned on Friday that the union should prepare for a changing landscape for organised labour.The African National Congress (ANC) has promised the next five years would see "radical transformation" in the fight against unemployment and inequality, with Nehawu hearing on Friday that unions would be expected to play their role in ensuring these objectives were met.More than 500 delegates gathered on Friday to decide on a new leadership, after four Nehawu office bearers were elected to Parliament as ANC MPs after last month’s general election.They are general secretary Fikile Majola, treasurer Pulani Mogotsi, and first and second deputy presidents Joe Mpisi and Thozama Mantashe.Nehawu’s new leadership must grapple with divisions in the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), and lead pay nego...
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