{"id":212419,"date":"2025-11-03T20:28:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-woman-of-steel-who-rose-from-ordinary-member-to-cwuz-president-josephine-makuwa-bares-her-vision\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T20:28:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:28:53","slug":"zimbabwe-woman-of-steel-who-rose-from-ordinary-member-to-cwuz-president-josephine-makuwa-bares-her-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-woman-of-steel-who-rose-from-ordinary-member-to-cwuz-president-josephine-makuwa-bares-her-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Woman of Steel Who Rose From Ordinary Member to Cwuz President &#8211; Josephine Makuwa Bares Her Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">After years of prolonged legal battles, the reality of the once vibrant Commercial Workers Union of Zimbabwe (CWUZ) roaring back to life was almost a pipedream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">However, following the dedicated fight put up by some of the remaining brave members, the union has once again resurrected back to life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Recently, I had the privilege to travel to the CWUZ headquarters in Waterfalls Harare to meet the new CWUZ president tasked to stir the trade union to greater heights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511030753.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of prolonged legal battles, the reality of the once vibrant Commercial Workers Union of Zimbabwe (CWUZ) roaring back to life was almost a pipedream. However, following the dedicated fight put up by some of the remaining brave members, the union has once again resurrected back to life. Recently, I had the privilege to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,27848,52773,52583,52774,6483,257,6472,2450,20899,254,16560,5094,4307,4686,421],"class_list":["post-212419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bares","tag-cwuz","tag-josephine","tag-makuwa","tag-member","tag-news","tag-ordinary","tag-president","tag-rose","tag-south-africa-today","tag-steel","tag-vision","tag-woman","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}