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The National Union of Mineworkers is celebrating thirty years of existence this year and on Sunday, 19 February, will hold a major rally in Mdantsane, outside East London. The year-long celebrations are moving from region to region on a month to month bas...
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A bill that would bring about a single public service, with the aim of improving delivery, will be introduced by June, the Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) announced this week. Yet in a “massive, complex initiative”, the bill wil...
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The Eastern Cape hopes to create 116,958 jobs in the coming financial year, Premier Noxolo Kiviet said on Friday. Delivering his State of the Province Address, the premier said although the country's unemployment rate had decreased, the provincial unempl...
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Government could soon look into the possibility of retiring teachers over the age of 55 in a bid to address the problem of excess teachers in the country's schools. Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga revealed on Friday that a proposal had been made...
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On Friday, the villagers of Matlou in North West, near Brits, and their neighbours took five hours to march about 20km to the gates of an Xstrata platinum mine, where they presented demands that included putting more locals to work at the mine. They also ...
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Public school teachers have to go where they are sent if they want to remain employed, according to Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga. She said the principle to be followed is that you go where the work is. If you cannot move, it means you are sayi...
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Impala Platinum and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) were reported to be meeting this afternoon in an attempt to resolve the 17-day “illegal” strike, which has cost the platinum producer R1.2bn in lost revenue. The platinum producer has to date...
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Almost 200 Absa IT employees are sitting at home on paid ‘gardening leave’ while awaiting the outcome of a company reassignment process. Notwithstanding official denials, they have been informed through internal communications that they are not guaran...
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A group of about 3,000 striking mineworkers gathered this morning outside Impala Platinum's Rustenburg mine ahead of a protest march. “The situation is calm at the moment,” said Brigadier Thulani Ngubane. The miners ostensibly intended marching to th...
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Solidarity says as many as 6.5m out of approximately 9m people in the formal labour market could be affected negatively by state intervention in the mining industry. Yesterday it issued a report on the value of the South African mining industry, which exp...
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Cosatu reports that it has given notice to Nedlac of its intention to proceed with a national strike on 7 March 2012 over its demands that labour brokers be banned and that Open Road Tolling (ORT), also known as e-tolling, should be completely abandoned. ...
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Impala Platinum confirmed yesterday that the 17,200 workers who were axed for engaging in an illegal strike at its Rustenburg operation last month would lose their slice of the firm’s multibillion rand employee share ownership scheme (Esop). A total of ...
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The conversion of SA Post Office (Sapo) contract workers (‘labour broker workers’) to permanent workers has been welcomed by the Communication Workers' Union (CWU) as a “moral boost”. It views this as “an important milestone in the campaign for ...
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The National Education, Health Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu) is demanding an improvement in the working conditions of members employed by the Western Cape Social Development Department. At a protest on Thursday, the union’s provincial secretary Luthand...
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More than 100 mineworkers were arrested at Impala Platinum's Rustenburg mine on Thursday after violent protests, North West police said. Brigadier Thulani Ngubane said 500 police officers had secured the mine and succeeded in containing the violence, addi...
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A higher level of security was needed at Impala Platinum’s strike-hit operations in Rustenburg to stop returning workers from being intimidated, according to corporate relations executive Bob Gilmour. With no end in sight to the month-long strike, he r...
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Solidarity says it has declared a wage dispute with the Grain Bargaining Council following disagreements with employers over salary increases. The union is demanding a 10% wage increase for this year, while most employers are offering 6%. A date for a di...
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Eastern Cape education superintendent-general Modidima Mannya scored a victory on Tuesday when a bid by senior officials to have his appointment declared irregular was dismissed in court. The application was brought by 30 suspended senior officials in hi...
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Bench Marks Foundation, an organisation which monitors corporate performance in the field of corporate social responsibility, has issued a press statement expressing its concern that Impala Platinum handled the unprotected strike at its Rustenburg operati...
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Unions should have been consulted about plans to introduce an integrated public transport system controlled by municipalities, the Federation of Unions of SA said on Thursday. According to general secretary Dennis George, the federation has yet to be off...
