The municipality that serves the area comprising Swartruggens, Derby and Koster in the North-West province has totally stopped functioning and that includes each and every service, even basics like the provision of water. Local residents led by the Rate Payers Association have declared an emergency and have started to provide the services themselves!
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White Residents go to Court to Take Over Municipal Services After Black Municipality Collapses. They Have Already Taken Over Water Treatment Plant After Water Stopped Running
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SAA: More unions want to strike after Gordhan’s attempt at wage and severance dispute fails
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In support of Numsa’s strike, and in opposition to the view of ANC minister Pravin Gordhan, more unions have indicated that they will join the strike. The circumstances in which SAA currently finds itself have left the state-controlled entity in unsustainable status, and the entry of Pravin Gordhan has increased the bitterness and power building..
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SAA strike costing R52 million a day and with a bankruptcy record it could mean the end of the entity
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More than 3000 workers affiliated with Numsa and Sacca downed tools at SAA on Friday over a wage dispute and plans to cut more than 900 jobs, costing the airline about R52 million a day. The interim chief financial officer of SAA Deon Fredericks, said the strike was pushing the struggling airline to unsustainable levels…
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Warning! SAA Strike will intensify – Talks between National carrier and striking unions collapse
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JOHANNESBURG – Talks between South African Airways (SAA) management and striking workers have collapsed. Union leaders briefed the media and workers after the parties met on Saturday in an attempt to resolve the strike which began on Friday. Workers are demanding an 8%wage increase while SAA is offering 5.9%. According to the National Union for..
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ANC-regime needs to take notice – The cost of violent protests has spiked 100 fold in a decade
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The number – and size – of insurance claims filed with state-owned political risk insurer Sasria (the South African Special Risks Insurance Association) show just how much violent protests are costing South Africa. In 2007, after nearly four years of economic growth of over 5%, Sasria received 540 claims worth R14 million for damage as..
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Death bells are ringing for SAA due to impending strike
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The impending strike at SAA by the SA Cabin Staff Association and Numsa could mean the end of the airline. In the meantime, the Pilot Association announced that they supported the idea and that the state entity’s overall top management should be replaced. Furthermore, they threatened to act if a Chief Executive with no experience..
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‘Mother of all strikes’ ready to paralyze SAA as union hints at ‘total shutdown’ if national carrier cuts a fifth of staff
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Numsa and Sacca already have a strike certificate as they accuse management of threatening them with retrenchments and call for the SAA board to be scrapped. As if their financial dire straits and the plan that they would have to retrench about 900 people were not enough, the national carrier South African Airways (SAA) is..
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Taxi drivers wreaks havoc in Western Cape amidst ongoing strikes and protest, disrupting traffic from major cities
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Western Cape taxi drivers will start their protest again this week, disrupting traffic from major cities such as Cape Town and Bellville. Several taxi associations have begun the resistance that could be resumed this week for their dissatisfaction with Cape Town’s Traffic Department. They claim that the Department of Traffic officials are using the taxi..
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African barbarism intensifies throughout SA – Protests, riots and arson are the order of the day when Bantu can’t get what they want
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The residents of the Elias Motsoaledi squatter camp in Johannesburg apparently had enough and started protesting by making the only route to Lanseria International Airport impassable. Burning tires, stones and bricks in the only route on Monday blocked the way to the airport, and vehicles that dared to face the barricades went under the residents’..
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Air travellers in SA – Bring your own food, union says, as strike threatens airport catering services
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Air travellers in South Africa have been warned to pack lunch boxes as there will be no food or catering services on several airlines as workers are expected to embark on a strike on Monday. This as the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) warned on Sunday that there would be no food..
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The African way! Illegal striking employees of Emfuleni Local Municipality wreaks havoc in dispute over salaries and awards
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The Emfuleni Local Municipality says its employees, working in various departments and office buildings in Vanderbijlpark, were violently chased away from their work-stations by fellow striking employees, or general workers, today. Emfuleni said this disrupted the provision of services and inconvenienced residents and non-striking workers. ELM said the general workers have been on an illegal..
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Kruger National Park a world-renowned tourist attraction, could be brought to a standstill by disgruntled workers over unresolved wage disputes
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Hundreds of SANParks workers are planning a second strike over unresolved wage disputes, not only at the Kruger Gate, but also nationwide, on September 20,2019. The National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers’ (Nupsaw) spokesman, Kagiso Makoe, said the union would embark on a national shutdown of SANParks facilities – on behalf of SANParks..
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Numsa gets salary agreement – more pay and perks but no productivity or fewer strikes
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The National Union for Metal Workers (Numsa), has negotiated less than 50% of its salary after months of talks to negotiate a 20% salary increase for its members. The union, which is the largest in South Africa, and which does little more for its members than negotiate new salaries on a regular basis, failed miserably..
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VIDEO: The MultiCulti Melting Pot Boils Over as Civil War Erupts in South Africa, Fueled by Open Borders – Globalism Kills…
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WARNING – GRAPHIC CONTENT! The globalist melting pot of multiculturalism is boiling over in South Africa after having simmered for for decades…
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Motor industry may be crippled by imminent strikes – unreasonable demands from unions could lead to withdrawal of manufacturers from SA and job losses
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Strikes could soon paralyze car manufacturers in South Africa if an agreement is not reached with the trade union Numsa soon. The first round of talks failed, and a second attempt was envisaged, but the demands made by the union left a red light for the future of the industry. The first round of talks..
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