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DFA reports that The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) will stage a march in Kimberley on Friday, starting at 9am, as part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign. The march will proceed from the Telkom Tower in Long Street to the provincial office of the Department of Correctional Services […]
DFA reports that the South African Municipal Workers Union shop stewards have raised serious concerns about poor working conditions at Sol Plaatje Municipality. They also claimed they were being intimidated and “treated like children”. According to an affidavit, housing unit workers were left “shocked and afraid” when the acting housing manager allegedly cocked his gun […]
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CapricornFM writes that Advocacy group, Lentswe Laka Foundation has called for the full might of the law to be brought against a manager at Mjejane River Lodge in Komatipoort, Mpumalanga, who was arrested on charges of sexual assault perpetrated against his black female staff. The accused, a white male, appeared at the Komatipoort Magistrate’s Court […]
GroundUp reports that the Eastern Cape Department of Health is planning to move patients from Cofimvaba Hospital to other facilities, after nurses went on an unprotected strike. On Monday nurses at Cofimvaba Hospital, near Queenstown, downed tools, demanding that acting CEO Ntombesithathu Qotoyi be removed. They accuse her of disrespecting and insulting them and playing […]
Sunday World reports that the Labour Court in Johannesburg has ruled in favour of Wits University to review and set aside an arbitration award in the dismissal of an employee who was fired after accusations of stealing a cellphone belonging to a student. The employee, who worked as a cleaner, was reinstated after winning her […]
Employers are evading accountability when domestic workers are injured on the job, Pinky Mashiane, founder of United Domestic Workers of South Africa (UDWOSA), told a roundtable discussion organised by the Social Economic Rights Institute at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg on Thursday. The discussion comes on the fourth anniversary of the landmark Constitutional Court […]
The General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), Solly Phetoe, will meet with the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy and Vantage Goldfields in Barberton, Mpumalanga on Friday 22 November, to establish progress made in the reopening of Lily Mine and the retrieval of the remains of the miners who lost […]
SABC News reports that doctors in Eastern Cape are calling on the provincial government to address staff shortages that continue to plague the Department. The public sector doctors and nurses say they are overburdened amid a shortage of staff members. The Doctors were hosted by the Provincial Department in East London in celebration of the […]
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in the Highveld Region has taken a decision to approach the Labour Court to challenge or fight the decision taken by Seriti Resources to retrench 1,143 workers in Mpumalanga. “We have already activated our lawyers to approach the Labour Court. Today, November 15th, 2024, the Regional Secretary comrade Tshilidzi […]
SABC News writes that Public sector labour unions are currently consulting with their members on the latest government wage offer of 4.7%. The country’s organised labour has been engaged in wage negotiations with the employer at the Public Sector Coordinating Bargaining Council ahead of the 2025 financial year. Public sector workers had initially demanded a […]