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Karl Cloete

Karl Cloete is the former Numsa Deputy General Secretary. He writes in his personal capacity. (Photo: Netwerk24)

Latest Work

Karl Cloete

21 December 2022

How the Left always misses where many workers’ loyalty to the ANC lies

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Karl Cloete

29 July 2022

Misguided Numsa leadership steering union to edge of collapse

5 min

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Karl Cloete

6 April 2022

AfriForum’s ‘surrogate’ Kaapse Forum revives the ghosts of apartheid’s Tricameral Parliament

4 min

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Karl Cloete

6 March 2022

The three R's - review, rethink and reimagine - are urgently needed to get skills development in South Africa back on track

4 min

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Karl Cloete

25 February 2022

The long zig-zag journey to One Country - One Federation and why we have yet not arrived

6 min

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Karl Cloete

21 February 2022

We have a couple of small elephants in the trade union room threatening to trample on everything we have built

5 min

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Karl Cloete

2 March 2021

Labour pains: Trade union membership has declined badly and bosses are calling the shots

5 min

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Karl Cloete

17 February 2021

Jessie Duarte is living in a parallel universe if she believes that the ANC is ‘the People’

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Op-Ed: Numsa supports a transition from dirty energy to clean renewable energy

15 March 2018

Op-Ed: Numsa supports a transition from dirty energy to clean renewable energy

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Karl Cloete

12 April 2017

What is the class agenda of the latest #ZumaMustFall campaign?

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Karl Cloete

15 December 2015

What does the working class stand to gain from the #ZumaMustFall campaign?

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Op-Ed: Response to Jeremy Cronin by NUMSA Deputy General Secretary Karl Cloete

22 May 2014

Op-Ed: Response to Jeremy Cronin by NUMSA Deputy General Secretary Karl Cloete

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