A community member who has been part of the protests in Hermanus has blamed “drug addicts” for the violence that gripped the coastal town on Monday.
Speaking outside a gutted library, Masibulele Jimlongo said before starting the protest, the community had decided as a collective not to destroy property
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The five were allegedly part of a group of people who attempted to invade vacant, privately owned land in Waterfall.
On Friday, police spokesperson Captain Meyer said about 2 000 people gathered on a piece of land in Waterfall at about 11am and attempted to invade it.
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CAPE TOWN – A group of protesting Imizamo Yethu residents is demanding basic services.
The residents have been at loggerheads with the City of Cape Town since last year when a fire devastated the area
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Red Ant security personnel were called in on Friday to dismantle illegal structures and evict people who had occupied land. A group of about 200 people from Zwelihle had protested outside the municipal offices‚ vowing not to be evicted. Municipal manager Coenie Groenewald said the land occupation was illegal.
Hermanus Community Policing Forum spokesperson Caroline Gabb said on Monday: “The situation is Zwelihle is tense. Residents are being intimidated and prevented from going to work. Taxis aren’t operating
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This follows an incident where 80% of the students were allegedly hospitalised because of food poisoning.
The students of Mpumalanga College of Nursing are on strike, demanding that the department of health appoint a new food service provider for the campus, Mpumalanga News reports
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CAPE TOWN – George municipal officials are meeting with disgruntled residents from Thembalethu to find a resolution following a flare-up in protests.
Protesters had marched to the municipal offices earlier this week to hand over a memorandum of grievances
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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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JOHANNESBURG – Police have fired rubber bullets after marchers taking part in Nehawu’s North West day of action were confronted by a crowd dressed in African National Congress (ANC) T-shirts outside the legislature in Mahikeng.
Union members are calling for Premier Supra Mahumapelo to step down, while members of the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) are marching in his defence
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JOHANNESBURG – The Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) is monitoring a protest which has turned violent on the R550 and R557 in the south of Johannesburg.
It’s understood the protesters have torched a truck and are stoning vehicles in response to JMPD demolishing illegal shacks near Kanana Park
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Durban – General Khehla John Sithole, National Police Commissioner has called for calm in Eshowe after violent protests erupted in the northern KwaZulu-Natal town on Wednesday night.
Hundreds went on rampage after a man was shot dead whilst he was fishing at a dam on the Gqobhokani farm
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Durban – Chaos has erupted in the northern KwaZulu-Natal town of Eshowe, after a 30-year-old man was shot dead while fishing at a farm in the area on Wednesday night. The man was reportedly shot dead by a security guard. After the shooting, a mob of angry residents barricaded the R66 with burning tyres and rubble.
The guard, 21, has since been charged with murder. Colonel Thembeka Mbhele, police spokesperson, said the guard is due to appear in court soon.
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JOHANNESBURG – With fears of a shortage of running water in taps across the country due to a nationwide strike in the sector, National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) says that its work stoppage will remain indefinite until all its demands are met.
Taylks between the Water and Sanitation Department and the union deadlocked on Thursday
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Northam – Communities living in the mining area of Northam Platinum mine in Limpopo braved the rain to hand over a memorandum to the mine on Thursday.
Communities residing in the 50km radius of the mine demanded that they be employed at the mine; that the mine recognise their councillors and traditional leaders; and for the mine to stop recruiting people from Teba in Phokeng and to rather recruit directly from the mining communities.
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JOHANNESBURG – Yet another Gupta-linked mine has failed to pay the salaries of its employees.
The mine in question is the Koornfontein Coal Mine in Mpumalanga.
This follows the failure of the controversial family’s Optimum Coal Mine to pay its workers their salaries this month which led to mineworkers downing tools since Wednesday.
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JOHANNESBURG – Optimum Coal Mine workers said that they do not know how they are going to get by this weekend after their employer failed to pay them yesterday.
For the past two days, the employees have been demonstrating outside the mine in Mpumalanga demanding for their salaries to be paid.
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