Viva the digital divide Viva

Plenty at first glance. Including I noticed with interest, a facility to translate the site into no fewer than 26 different languages.

It's heartening to know that Norwegian visitors can view the site in their home language. So too can French, Danes, Belgians and Russians.

You can get your latest dose of labour intelligentsia in either European or Latin American Spanish. The millions of Welsh coal miners must also be resting easier knowing that they can log on in their own oft disenfranchised language.

Not a sniff of Tswana, Zulu, or Xhosa was to be seen. If you speak Sotho, Southern or Northern, you can forget it.

No, English is the only option available to the masses of South African workers Cosatu allegedly represents.

What's more is that there is obviously some domain name dispute going on between the union and government.

Log on to Cosatu.co.za and you are re-routed to the CCMA website. Coincidence? I think not.

The only conclusion I could draw from this rather amusing situation is that Cosatu has obviously heard of the digital divide and thinks it will have no Zulu or Xhosa visitors, at all. Ever.

However, obviously masses of disenchanted Serb readers are massing on their employees, demanding their labour rights as we speak.