Cosatu president, Zingiswa Losi at Gallagher Conference centre in Johannesburg, 29 September 2022, after she was re-elected with new leadership on the last day of the congress. Picture: Nigel Sibanda
Zingiswa Losi has been re-elected for a second term as the Congress of South African Trade Unions‘ (Cosatu) president.
Losi will serve as the trade union federation’s president for another four years after she was uncontested for the top post at Cosatu’s 14th national congress in Midrand, Johannesburg.
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Almost 2 000 Cosatu delegates cast their votes in electing their national leaders at the conference that started on Monday, at Gallagher Convention Centre.
The other elected leaders of Cosatu included Mike Shingange, Duncan Luvuno, Freda Oosthuizen and Solly Phetoe as first deputy president, second deputy president, treasurer general and general secretary, respectively.
All these positions were also uncontested.
The only contested position at conference was for deputy general secretary which was won by Gerald Thwala. He won a landslide victory against Moses Lekota.
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