The financial cost of Cosatu’s factional power play for leadership posts has come back to bite the trade union federation, sending it cap in hand to its affiliates to raise at least R5 million for a re-run of the national elective congress tomorrow or face a constitutional crisis.Cosatu national office bearers revealed in a letter to the affiliates on Wednesday that the federation was facing “serious financial difficulties”, appealing for nearly R500,000 in contributions for the Emperor’s Palace conference centre in Ekurhuleni from all 11 affiliates.Earlier efforts to secure Nasrec in...

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