The South African economy started at a very bitter note this year with unemployment rising to 27.6%. This was 27.1% in the fourth quarter of 2018, but the ANC regime told voters how the figure was going to fall, they just had to vote for the party. Extensive unemployment has risen to the highest level..
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Unemployment in SA is currently 27.6% – but the ANC regime tells voters how the figure is going to fall, they just have to vote for the party
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SA’s trade unions are the biggest single reason why land is on the verge of ruin and can at any time reach junk status
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More than 15,000 miners will start working for the first time in five months at the Driefontein – Kloof and Beatrix mines after a dispute between the trade union Amcu and the Sibanye group. The new agreement shows that workers will earn more than R700 a month than before, but in the meantime five months’..
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West Rand District Municipality that flout regulations by ploughing R77m into VBS can’t pay their 458 employees salaries this month
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The West Rand district municipality is one of 15 municipalities which made deposits with now-bankrupt VBS Bank despite an instruction from National Treasury forbidding them to do so. Municipal workers at the West Rand District municipality on the outskirts of Johannesburg were left in the lurch on Monday after not being paid their salaries. The..
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Guptas at it again – workers unpaid but lavish R100m double wedding planned – most likely funded by the ANC-regime?
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The Emirates Palace hotel in Abu Dhabi where the Gupta family are reportedly hosting a lavish double wedding in February 2019. The Guptas are reported to be hosting a lavish double wedding at a palatial hotel in Abu Dhabi. The AmaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism published a nine-page wedding invitation on Friday and said the..
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Cyril Ramaphosa signs National Minimum Wage Bill to uplift the country’s working poor who earn below R20 an hour – What about old age pension Mr President, can’t you increase that as well?
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Employers who are unable to pay the minimum wage due to constraints in their businesses will be eligible for exemptions. President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the National Minimum Wage Bill, which is expected to benefit about 6-million workers that currently earn below R3,700 a month when it comes into effect on January 1 2019. Business..
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National bankrupt broadcaster SABC, splurges millions, footed by taxpayers, on parties and bonuses while retrenching hundreds of workers
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MPs serving on the standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) have told the SABC top brass that it was unfair of them to retrench ordinary workers while the public broadcaster was spending millions of rands on parties and bonuses. The SABC board and its senior executives, including CEO Madoda Mxakwe and head of human resources..
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Another deceit from the ANC regime! – Gold Field Mine announced that it is necessary to lay down 1,100 workers, just a few days after the ruling government has assured no retrenchments will be made
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The National Union for Miners (NUM) has called on the Minister of Mineral Resources, Gwede Mantashe, to protect jobs at the Gold Field Mine. It follows after the mine announced that it was forced to lay down 1,100 workers and added that the number of contractors was reduced to 420. The announcement of Gold Field..
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Numsa members responsible for the devastating fire of a factory in Ladybrand
VBS Mutual Bank fires workers – staff members are now being penalized for actions that was made by the bank’s corrupt management and directors
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VBS Mutual Bank has fired 94 employees, leaving the bankrupt bank with 26 staff members. Nearly R2 billion has been deceptively paid to individuals and institutions, especially officials from municipalities who have insured that funds are invested at the bank. Branches are closed and only Thohoyando and Makhodo branches will operate. The dismissed workers are..
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SASSA beneficiaries struggle as post office strike continues
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The strike by South African Post Office workers over wages entered a second week on Friday. Post offices in Pietermaritzburg were closed. Workers are demanding a 12% increase. “Currently the employer has offered 6.5%,” said the provincial secretary of the Communication Workers Union, Thami Mzileni. Mzileni said on Friday morning workers received a court interdict..
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Public service workers to strike
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Public service workers plan to put down their pens and wheelbarrows and stop work on Monday, June 11th.
This after wage negotiations failed.
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Prasa to fork out R1bn in backpay as it reinstates 700 dismissed workers
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The cost to reinstate the 700 workers who were fired by the Passenger Rail of South Africa (Prasa) after a protected strike five years ago will amount to over R1-billion.
Two weeks ago‚ the Constitutional Court dismissed an appeal by Prasa which had sought to appeal against a Labour Appeal Court judgment last year ordering the reinstatement of the workers.
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