Edwin Mkhize

Edwin Mkhize is the secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) in KwaZulu-Natal, where he emphasizes the importance of job security within the sugar industry. Mkhize has been a proponent of protecting local jobs and livelihoods from the adverse effects of cheap sugar imports, while also calling for accountability in the case of fraud that nearly led to the collapse of Tongaat Hulett.