Acting public works director general Sam Vukela has accused the department’s minister, Gwen Mahlangu-Nkabinde, of acting in bad faith.
Julius Malema’s legal team is seeking to highlight what it says is uneven treatment in the charges he faces.
ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema launched a thinly-veiled attack on President Jacob Zuma ahead of a disciplinary hearing on Tuesday.
The sands appear to be shifting as the labour federation extends an olive branch to government.
Four more ANC Youth League leaders have been charged with bringing the ANC into disrepute after calling for regime change in Botswana.
The department of public works has paid R68-million so far in rental for an empty building.
President Jacob Zuma’s new son-in-law is at the centre of an escalating row over a R1-billion tender for new government office space.
Relations between Zwelinzima Vavi and Sdumo Dlamini have deteriorated so much that Cosatu set up a high-level committee to address the issues.
The <em>Mail & Guardian</em> spoke to Samwu’s general secretary, Mthandeki Nhlapo, about the union’s objections to the Bill.
The economy will lose more working hours if planned strikes by hundreds of thousands of workers in the coal and diamond sector go ahead.
Communications Minister Roy Padayachie tells the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> he was trying to give the SABC board a free hand.
The knives are out for Limpopo Premier Cassel Mathale as some provincial and national ANC leaders push to remove him as ANC provincial chairperson.
As the country reels from twin strikes by the metal and chemical worker unions, a further strike is looming by nearly a million members of Cosatu.
Numsa boss Irvin Jim, who is leading the national metal and engineering workers’ union wage strike, has been touted as a possible successor to Vavi.
The petroleum, chemical and mining industries — key sectors in the economy — are bracing themselves for rolling mass action starting next week.
Blade Nzimande has fiercely defended the role of the SACP, which has been harshly criticised by alliance partners for failing the working class.
President Zuma has launched a veiled attack on Cosatu’s Zwelinzima Vavi and other alliance leaders for criticising the ANC and government in public.
Mayor-in-waiting Parks Tau has promised the people of Johannesburg value for money when he takes over as the city council’s new political head.
Samwu members say the national executive committee forced them to abide by the decision to suspend the planned strike despite their objections.
Julius Malema no longer has to worry that his deputy
wants to replace him.
Samwu’s plans to down tools days before the election is ‘in poor taste’, says the ANC.
Rumours of a fallout between Gibson Njenje, Siyabonga Cwele and Jacob Zuma have sparked fears of the revival of a turf war within the NIA.
The MKMVA believes it got R250-million worth of shares from a company linked to the Gupta family and President Jacob Zuma’s son Duduzane.
A Free State businessman is demanding a whopping R15-million for a Bloemfontein house which the ANC wants to turn into a symbol.
The ANC, its women’s league, the Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans’ Association and the Cabinet all leapt to Jacob Zuma’s defence this week.
Cosatu will bring the ANC’s lack of consultation on key state appointments into the spotlight at this week’s alliance summit.
<b>Matuma Letsoalo</b> quizzes Satawu national sector coordinator Tabudi Ramakgolo on the violent truck drivers’ strike.
Supporters and opponents of Lebogang Maile claim his campaign to challenge Julius Malema is being endorsed by senior ANC leaders.
The sudden withdrawal of a top law firm from representing ANC Youth League president Julius Malema in his "shoot the boer" case has divided the firm.
In a scathing response to government’s new growth path (NGP), Cosatu this week accused Jacob Zuma of sidelining the ANC’s Polokwane resolutions.
Free State minister of human settlements is facing the axe after his national counterpart Tokyo Sexwale clawed back R263-million.
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/ 14 January 2011
As the strain between government and the country’s largest trade union federation persists, we speak to Cosatu president Sdumo Dlamini.