The recommendation for no pay hikes is based on South Africa’s financial position in general, as well as the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic
Cosatu pushes back against ‘treasury bureaucracy’ for not allowing civil servants emergency access to their retirement funds as a form of Covid-19 relief
The state faces a dilemma: it made a three-year wage agreement with public servants in 2018, before the pandemic, but reneging on it now will undermine labour’s trust
Measures such as better street lighting, training the police and enforcing gun control can effect real change
Much of the MTBPS was finalised before Mboweni’s appointment was announced following the resignation of his predecessor Nhlanhla Nene
President Ramaphosa’s administration is planning to lay off 30 000 public servants in the next three years. More in this week’s unembargoed.
The director general of the treasury, Lungisa Fuzile, has given a shining example of what a public servant should be like.
Chris Mann wonders whether it is elitist to cherish a burning desire to see the great South African dream come true.
Insiders have debunked President Jacob Zuma’s claim that government employees support his proposal of a salary freeze for a year.
Stung by the rejection of their salary demands, Zimbabwean public servants staged nationwide protests in a bid to force the government’s hand.
In a letter to the president and the DA, the national co-ordination committee of the national Imbizo asks politicians to start using public services.
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Neither the government nor the unions made use of a mediation mechanism that could have avoided the recent month-long strike.
Crowds of healthcare workers sang and danced as they protested outside Natalspruit Hospital in Thokoza on Wednesday, watched by the police.
Economic policy change the core motivation for labour mass action, says general secretary.
Crowds of healthcare workers sang and danced as they protested outside Natalspruit Hospital in Thokoza on Wednesday, watched by the police.
Ex-minister and his DG set up a company closely connected to their old jobs.
The Public Servants’ Association (PSA) said it was difficult to gauge the effects of a strike that got under way on Thursday.
Unions representing 1,3-million government employees have given PSA Minister Richard Baloyi until next week to improve the government’s wage offer.
Imagine how many South Africans could have been spared falling victim to violent crime had the police not been rotting, like a fish, from the head.
The DG of the Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Department has quit the department after a bitter falling out with Minister Shiceka.
President Jacob Zuma has once again vowed to act against incompetent and lazy public servants.