Cosatu on Tuesday said it was deeply disappointed by an announcement that Parliament and government would not be ready to implement the National Minimum Wage on 1 May.
Cosatu said it has repeatedly raised concern that delays in negotiations at Nedlac and Parliament were putting the implementation date at risk and this had now become reality
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Johannesburg – Farmers’ organisation Transvaal Agricultural Union of SA (TAU-SA) on Wednesday warned it would use every means possible to stop the expropriation of land without compensation.
This came as Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa slammed British Prime Minister Theresa May over the thorny issue of land.
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As the majority of South Africans commemorate Human Rights Day, Groenewald will lead a delegation to a gathering of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO), which will sit in Belgium this week.
Groenewald will address the sitting and at the heart of his presentation will be the FF Plus resistance to land expropriation without compensation
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The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) welcomes the decision by SAFTU to go on a general strike on the 25th April, 2018 to defend the right to strike. SAFTU confirmed this at their National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting over the weekend. SAFTU is proving once again that it is a truly worker controlled militant trade union federation.
The state is attacing workers and their families
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has reiterated the government’s support for land expropriation without compensation, but dodged explaining to gathered MPs if the state has worked out a detailed plan to make it happen.
Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane had submitted a question in Parliament on how the state plans to expropriate land without paying for it.
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Johannesburg – NPA head Shaun Abrahams is free to make an announcement on whether former president Jacob Zuma will face corruption charges.
National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson Luvuyo Mfaku confirmed that Abrahams will make a decision on Zuma’s fate any day after Thursday
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The South African Social Security Agency’s (Sassa) contingency plan to manage the cash component of the social grants system, were the Constitutional Court to deny an extension of the invalid CPS contract, was only work in progress, its acting CEO has said.
The Constitutional Court last week demanded that both Sassa and the South African Post Office (Sapo) clarify the contingency measures, put in place to deal with the payment of social grants.
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Come April 1, beneficiaries will receive their social grants, but the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) will still need the help of Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) to make it happen.
Sassa announced in a joint press conference with the South African Post Office (Sapo) on Thursday that the two had made strides to ensure that South Africa’s 17-million grant beneficiaries will be paid on time.
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The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) does not have alternative plans if the court refuses to extend the Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) contract by another six months, the Constitutional Court heard on Tuesday.
“There will be chaos,” Nazeer Cassim, the advocate for Sassa, argued before a full Bench.
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The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) has come under fire for failing to adequately explain to the Constitutional Court why it waited until the last hour before requesting an extension of the invalid Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) contract.
Sassa is seeking to extend its contract with CPS, to distribute social grants, for a further six months.
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PRETORIA – It’s being reported that authorities are raiding the properties of the Guptas in India, including their home in Saharanpur.
Indian media is reporting that the raids relate to a fraud investigation against Ajay Gupta, who is considered a fugitive from justice in South Africa.
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The country’s current debate over land expropriation without compensation, which has now been endorsed by Parliament, is important. Not because, as some fear, it will radically change the constitution. Rather, it tells South Africans how, in the economy and other spheres, the country deals with its minority ruled past: by crisis followed by compromise.
Crises are the only way change happens because, since the 1970s, the goal of the minority which has called the shots in the society for decades has been to ensure that changes alter as little as possible.
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The National Assembly has just voted in favour of beginning a process so that the Constitution can be amended to allow land expropriation without compensation.
On Tuesday, 324 of 400 MPs sat in the National Assembly to vote on the motion that was brought by the Economic Freedom Fighters.
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Former president Jacob Zuma’s rambling monologue on the SABC on Wednesday afternoon wasn’t just an arrogant, delusional act of defiance in the face of the ANC’s national executive committee (NEC) instruction to step down as head of state.
It was his final act of working outside the structures of the governing party, and of the state, and of using the resources that his deployment to government had enabled him to pursue his own agenda, often to the detriment of both.
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