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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Commuters will be compensated with a free ride for a lost day.
The taxi industry in Ekurhuleni has given the Ekurhuleni metro notice that its members will be embarking on a march tomorrow,
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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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Fawu has marched to the Sars HQ to call for a clampdown on illegal TRADE.
Billions of rand can easily be brought into over-stretched-state coffers if illicit trade is addressed with urgency.
South Africans were shocked in October when then finance minister Malusi Gigaba informed the nation in his mid-term Budget speech that a drastic decline in economic growth, coupled with “a sharp deterioration” in tax collections, had led to a tax revenue shortfall of R50.8billion – the largest under-collection since the 2009 recession.
Since then, Gigaba has announced a 1% VAT increase – the first in our democratic era – to try to address the shortfall, before Nhlanhla Nene replaced him as the person holding the purse strings.
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Pretoria – Hundreds of “unhappy” security guards took to the streets of the capital to march against exploitation, poor working conditions and unlawful deductions from salaries on Tuesday morning.
The security guards, AFFILIATED to the Academic and Professional Staff Association, came from as far as Bronkhorstspruit and Johannesburg are planned to march to different head offices of organisations that use Apsa security guards.
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The lack of supervision in the classroom has turned out to be a recipe for disaster as pupils loiter around the school while others engage in violence. Last week, two Grade 11 boys stabbed each other with a pair of scissors inside the classroom in front of their cheering classmates.
The fight was recorded on a fellow pupil’s cellphone. The footage shows a pupil stabbing another twice in the face as others try to intervene while others cheer them on. Seconds later, the stabbed pupil is seen angrily leaving the classroom with blood oozing from his face.
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