The Democratic Municipal and Allied Workers' Union of South Africa (DEMAWUSA) is a

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representing workers employed by local authorities and state governments in

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. The union was founded in 2015, as a split from the South African Municipal Workers Union. In 2017, it was a founding affiliate of the

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(SAFTU), and as of 2020, it had about 12,000 members. In 2019, the union held a strike ballot among Metrobus workers in

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. Although it stated that the ballot was conducted in secret, the

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claimed that it was unable to prove this, and that as a result, it should be deregistered. The union appealed this deregistration order, arguing that SAFTU affiliates were being unfairly targeted by the government. In 2021, the union was considering a merger with the Municipal and Allied Trade Union of South Africa, another SAFTU affiliate, with a similar history.

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