{"id":244529,"date":"2022-12-01T16:58:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T14:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/article\/police-union-unexpectedly-leaves-saftu\/"},"modified":"2022-12-01T16:58:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T14:58:39","slug":"police-union-unexpectedly-leaves-saftu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/police-union-unexpectedly-leaves-saftu\/","title":{"rendered":"Police union unexpectedly leaves SAFTU"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SAFTU General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks<\/p>\n

The South African Policing Union (SAPU) has unexpectedly left the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), tendering their disaffiliation in a letter sent to the federation\u2019s General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

According to SAPU\u2019s letter, the union had resolved to disaffiliate from SAFTU, effective immediately, during its national congress which is currently underway. With its disaffiliation, SAPU\u2019s newly-elected president Thabo Matsose is recalled as SAFTU\u2019s first deputy president.<\/p>\n

Matsose was elected to the position of SAFTU\u2019s first deputy president during the federation\u2019s May 2022 congress, and was seen as part of a group opposed<\/a> to Vavi\u2019s reelection as general secretary. He is also close to Irvin Jim, General Secretary of NUMSA, and Vavi\u2019s rival<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Trevor Shaku, SAFTU spokesperson, confirmed to GroundUp that SAFTU received the letter of disaffiliation, but said that there was no explanation why it was tendered.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are clueless as to the reasons that may have caused SAPU\u2019s exit thus far,\u201d said Shaku.<\/p>\n

Shaku said that Matsose\u2019s position will be filled by election at SAFTU\u2019s Central Committee meeting in 2023.<\/p>\n

GroundUp emailed and phoned SAPU. Their comment will be added when it is received.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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SAFTU General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks The South African Policing Union (SAPU) has unexpectedly left the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), tendering their disaffiliation in a letter sent to the federation\u2019s General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi on Wednesday. According to SAPU\u2019s letter, the union had resolved to disaffiliate from SAFTU, effective […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9928],"tags":[28001],"class_list":{"0":"post-244529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-groundup","8":"tag-groundup","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/police-union-unexpectedly-leaves-saftu.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}