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Medical staff at state hospitals in Gauteng is not motivated due to the crippling state of the province’s health facilities. During a four-week investigation, Eyewitness News visited four major hospitals to determine the extent of the problems. Doctors...
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Gauteng MEC for Health Ntombi Mekgwe has vowed to take drastic action against corrupt doctors and to bring an end to the “scourge” of doctors claiming overtime fraudulently. A disciplinary case involving nine doctors who claimed excessive overtime is ...
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The SA Transport and Allied Workers’ Union has warned it will intensify its nationwide strike at Metrorail today, Tuesday, 28 February. It is demanding the suspension of Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) CEO Lucky Montana over alleged tender irregular...
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A disgruntled worker at the Swellendam municipality is facing an attempted murder charge after he hurled a petrol bomb at his boss’s office. He was part of a group of staff who apparently attended a farewell party on Thursday night and, after arriving l...
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Gauteng has stepped up efforts to improve youth employment in the province, with the announcement yesterday of a R100m fund for a youth placement programme targeting unemployed young people, including graduates and school-leavers.
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Health and education will be the focus of Gauteng's infrastructure development programme to create jobs, the provincial government said yesterday. The infrastructure development department has already embarked on an extensive infrastructure renewal progra...
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Producers of coal, iron ore and manganese could boost employment by 45% over the next eight years if planned rail investment aimed at improving the competitiveness of SA’s logistics infrastructure goes ahead. If bottlenecks at ports were removed, employ...
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The government on Friday admitted that amendments to SA’s labour laws may take longer than expected due to the effect of the changes on working people. There are four proposed amendment bills and two remain in limbo in Nedlac. The LRA and BCEA bills wil...
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The management of Impala Platinum, unruly workers and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) were all to blame for the recent strike at the platinum producer’s Rustenburg mine, the union said on Monday. Frans Baleni, general secretary, initially claim...
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Members of the National Union of Mineworkers at Samancor’s Eastern Chrome Mines, near Steelpoort in Mpumalanga, and Western Chrome Mines, near Mooinooi in the North West, downed tools yesterday. They are demanding the equalisation of salaries between Sa...
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ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema will address workers from Impala Platinum's Rustenburg operations today. This follows their five-week illegal strike. Spokesperson Floyd Shivambu said Malema would speak to the workers at the Freedom Park Stadium abou...
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The vacancy rates of critical posts in Eastern Cape state hospitals has almost doubled in the past financial year, leaving the province with a shocking 44% shortage in medical and nursing professionals, the auditor-general has revealed. In comparison, 31%...
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On Monday, reports emerged that staff at the Cape Town railway station were being intimidated by striking SA Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu), Metrorail officials in the province said. However, the rail operator confirmed that the industria...
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A massive overhaul of SA’s public transport system is in the works as expenditure on infrastructure doubles in the next decade in line with the country's New Growth Path. As this year's budget indicates, the Treasury wants the Transport Department to f...
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Thousands of train commuters in Gauteng yesterday bore the brunt of a national strike by Metrorail train drivers under the auspices of the SA Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu). However the company said the strike had had a negligible impact o...
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ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe has slammed the National Union of Metalworkers of SA, saying it was "politically dangerous" for it to seek changes in the ruling party's top leadership. Last week, Numsa deputy general secretary, Karl Cloete, said the ...
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The National Union of Mineworkers is to examine the consequences of the proposals in the ANC’s nationalisation report, which examined options in the mining industry. “Once we have done our homework we will engage with the ANC...” general secretary F...
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The National Union of Mineworkers has urged its members to join Cosatu’s protest action on 7 March next week against Gauteng e-tolling and against labour brokers. It said: "We remain convinced that the Cosatu position on rejecting the Gauteng tolling re...
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The rail workers' strike today by the SA Transport and Allied Workers' Union was a failure, according to Metrorail, which says that overall it was able to run an 85% train service in all its regions. However, the union maintains that the stations in Gaute...
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Impala Platinum was responsible for the chaotic five-week strike at its Rustenburg operations, the National Union of Mineworkers said on Monday. "Implats is fully responsible for the mess they find themselves in," general secretary Frans Baleni told repo...
