On Wednesday, Nehawu continued its strike for a third day, with patients across South Africa struggling to access hospitals, surgeries and dispensaries. Appointments are being cancelled and staff ...
Thousands of public workers in South Africa downed tools on Thursday, in a nationwide strike over wages after talks with the government hit a deadlock -- threatening to affect essential...
Thousands of workers affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) will today embark on a nationwide strike over the state of the economy, poor governance, and the falling...
Relevant case law dealing with the delicts committed by workers while in a protected or unprotected strike will also be consulted. 1.1 The historical developments of the right to strike in South Africa The South African strike law can be traced back in the 1922 Rand Rebellion were a large number of white miners clashed with the police.
Workers at South Africa's state-owned logistics firm Transnet will go on strike starting this Thursday over a wage dispute, two labour unions said, in a move that could halt the export of key ...
She said, despite the low attendance of the marches, workers could look to the National Shutdown, the strike at Eskom for a 7% increase, and the strike at Sibanye …
Miners' Strike. South Africa 1922. Synopsis. In early 1922, white South African workers in the Witwatesrand gold mining region went on strike. The strike soon became a violent rebellion—sometimes known as the Rand Revolt—that pitted the white miners against the mine owners and the government.
More than 2,000 workers have remained underground Tuesday, Dec. 19 in two shafts at Implats' Bafokeng Rasimone Platinum Mine in the North West province of South Africa for a second day in a protest over pay and …
The increase in working days lost, particularly in the second quarter, was driven by a prolonged wage-related strike at a large gold-mining company, the central bank said. About 31 000 workers at Sibanye Stillwater's three gold mines in South Africa embarked on a three-month strike for higher wages from early March. The protests hit the ...
Thousands of workers affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) will today embark on a nationwide strike over the state of the economy, poor governance, and the falling ...
South Africa's public service unions called Thursday for a massive national strike next week over wages, a month before a crucial deadline for President Cyril Ramaphosa's political future.
Presumably, not all students of the earlier generation 'worshipped the school authorities'! The first, recorded stoppages of lessons, (always called strikes in the South African newspapers), and the first riots in African schools occurred in 1920. In February, students at the Kilnerton training centre went on a hunger strike 'for more food'...
Strike: A strike is defined in section 213 of the LRA as the partial or complete concerted refusal to work, or the retardation or obstruction of work, by persons who are or have been employed by the same employer or by different employers, for the purpose of remedying a grievance or resolving a dispute in respect of any matter of mutual interest between employer …
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 24 (Reuters) - One of South Africa's largest public sector unions on Monday gave notice of its intention to strike after rejecting a 3% wage offer from the government.
When South Africa obtained democracy in 1994, there was a dream of a better country with a new vision for industrial relations. 5 However, the number of violent strikes that have bedevilled this country in recent years seems to have shattered-down the aspirations of a better South Africa. South Africa recorded 114 strikes in 2013 and 88 strikes ...
The South African Labour Appeal Court on Monday ordered striking state healthcare workers to end a week-long walkout that has affected services in some of the country's major hospitals, the health ...
South Africa's two largest trade unions, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), plan to strike and demonstrate nationwide Aug. 24. The strike has been scheduled to demand action to address high fuel prices, load shedding and the high cost of living.
Thousands of public sector workers in South Africa have embarked on a nationwide strike demanding better wages. Tuesday's "National Day of Action" comes after wage negotiations between...
The other union at Transnet, South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU), said it would join in the strike from Monday. Both unions said Transnet's offer of a 1.5 percent pay ...
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) are set to embark on a nationwide strike against the rising cost of living on Wednesday ...
South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) has agreed to stand down and allow the M1 and M2 highways to reopen in Braamfontein and the Johannesburg CBD. …
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has also issued a call to all workers and South Africans to join its national strike to address socioeconomic challenges. (Photo: Gallo Images ...
Thousands of people took to the streets of Pretoria in a strike on Wednesday to protest against worsening economic conditions. The protest was organised by South Africa's eight workers'...
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A South African police official photographs a bus that was torched during the ongoing strike by taxi operators over a number of grievances against traffic authorities in Cape Town, South Africa ...
The port and tourist city of Cape Town has been paralysed for several days by a collective taxi strike, which has taken a violent turn in South Africa's largest city with three deaths reported ...
Five people have died in violent protests relating to a taxi strike in Cape Town, South Africa, officials say. The victims include a 40-year-old British national whose family is being supported by ...
South Africa's two largest trade unions, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), plan to strike and demonstrate …
The first recorded celebration of May Day in South Africa is reported by Ray Alexander to have taken place in 1895 which was organised by the Johannesburg District Trades Council. ... the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) called for a May Day strike to protest against the Suppression of Communism Act. The strike resulted in police violence ...
The Soweto Uprising was a student-led protest that began on June 16, 1976, in Soweto, South Africa, against the government's plans to impose the Afrikaans language as a medium of instruction in schools for Black students. The uprising and the ensuing protests, which resulted in hundreds of deaths, created a crisis of legitimacy for South Africa's apartheid …
Staff Writer. · 21 Aug 2024. Here's what is happening in and affecting South Africa today: Hundreds of Germiston workers on strike: Over 600 workers at the Mister Sweet …
Democratic Alliance members march to Luthuli House, the headquarters of the ruling African National Congress, in Johannesburg on January 25, 2023, during a protest against South Africa's prolonged ...
