Satawu regroups after four years of factional and financial hardships
THE South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) is on the road to recovery and looking to expand after a tumultuous four years in which it suffered two splits.General secretary Zenzo Mahlangu said the strength of its organisers and shop stewards had been a bulwark against the difficulties the union had faced.Cosatu-aligned unions went through a torrid time after a bruising factional fight engulfed the union federation, linked to ANC succession, shortly after the ruling party’s last elective conference in 2012.Satawu split in that year after a disagreement between Mahlangu and then-president Ephraim Mphahlele.The factional battle in the union centred on allegations of corruption linked to state-owned rail company Passenger Rail Agency of SA.In 2015, president June Dube formed another splinter union. Satawu deputy general secretary Nicholas Maziya had also resigned.Mahlangu told Business Day that despite the splits, the union’s membership remained strong and had grown to...
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