Cosatu has vowed to press for higher pay increases during this year’s round of wage negotiations, despite the country’s difficult economic conditions.
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/ 20 February 2009
Matuma Letsoalo interviewed Fikile Mbalula, head of campaigns for the ANC and a former leader of the ANC Youth League.
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/ 15 February 2009
Mpumalanga could have its first woman premier since 1994 if a lobby group within the provincial ANC has its way.
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/ 21 November 2008
ANC president Jacob Zuma used his election campaign in Limpopo this week to down play the crisis engulfing the organisation.
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/ 26 September 2008
ANC president Jacob Zuma will spend the months ahead engaging ANC structures in an attempt to head off what seems to be an internal rebellion.
Cosatu’s national strike in protest against food, fuel and electricity prices this week hit economic activity hard.
Jacob Zuma urges the ANC Youth League to continue playing a critical role in the ANC.
Those who want to challenge the ANC Youth League leader’s legitimacy at the league’s conference must first win a two-thirds majority.
ANC deputy president Kgalema Molanthe that Julius Malema’s remarks would be discussed at the ANC’s national working committee meeting next week.
Over 50 vehicle dealerships across the country have shut up shop since the beginning of the year because of plunging sales, according to industry.
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/ 18 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/327874/livefrompolo.gif" align=left border=0></a>The ANC has resolved to increase its national executive committee from 60 to 86 members to ensure greater representation of the party’s motive forces. The decision came amid concern from some members of the ANC and its alliance partners that the executive no longer represents the party’s core constituency.
In a shift from their original bargaining position, public-service unions are set to table a new demand on Friday for a 10% pay increase, in a bid to end the week-long public-service strike, union sources have told the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>. The unions will also propose the appointment of a facilitator to help break the wage impasse.
The political stability in South Africa will not be sustainable if the levels of unemployment and poverty are not reduced, according to the National Union of Mineworkers’ 2004 secretariat report. The report says unemployment has increased from 16% in 1996 to between 30% and 41%.
Trade unions and the management of gold producer Harmony have agreed to redeploy workers at two of the six shafts earmarked for closure, the National Union of Mineworkers said on Monday. Last month, Harmony, the country’s third biggest gold producer, announced that it might have to close six of its mine shafts, citing the impact of the weak gold price.
Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana has appealed to all South African employers to respect the constitutional rights of workers by allowing them to go and cast their vote on Wednesday April 14, a public holiday. "This holiday was declared specifically to allow South Africans to exercise their right to vote," he said.
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Tuesday announced its decision to suspend the current wage negotiations between the union and gold mining giant Harmony. This was in reaction to the company’s announcement last Friday that it might have to close six of its mine shafts, which could cost more than 6Â 300 jobs.
The saga of Mpumalanga public works minister Steve Mabona intensified this week when the Scorpions submitted a long-awaited charge sheet in the Pretoria Regional Court against Mabona’s former head of department, William Mthombothi. Mthombothi was arrested and charged with fraud by the Scorpions last November.
The recent employment figures released by Statistics South Africa are a clear indication that there has been a marginal increase in the number of people in employment, Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana said on Tuesday. He said the government is on track to meet its goal of halving unemployment by 2014.
Department of Labour inspectors on Tuesday served 17 contravention notices and a prohibition order on four different companies at Isipingo, south of Durban, after several complaints relating to air pollution, environmental issues and unconducive working environments in the area.
The number of man days lost in South Africa due to strike action fell from 945Â 000 in 2002 to 700Â 000 in 2003, according to labour analyst’s Andrew Levy strike report for 2003. The report says strike action in the country has levelled off significantly since the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana has lashed out at Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon’s suggestion of a two-tier labour market in the country, saying the system is aimed at making black workers perpetual slaves. Mdladlana was reacting to a speech Leon delivered on the DA’s economic policy.
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>Former president Nelson Mandela on Thursday put aside his tight schedule to pay tribute to his lifelong comrade Joe Slovo, the past chairperson of the South African Communist Party (SACP), at Slovo’s Avalon grave in Soweto. Mandela’s visit coincided with the launch of the Joe Slovo Election Trail campaign by the SACP.
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/ 18 February 2004
The son of Gauteng safety and security minister Nomvulo Mokonyane appeared at the Krugersdorp Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday on charges of theft and malicious damage to property. He was arrested in August last year after he had allegedly broken into his aunt’s house.
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/ 26 September 2003
Major South African trade unions have vowed to go on strike next week in protest against massive job losses in various sectors of the country’s economy. The strike threat comes in the week that Statistics South Africa announced the worsening level of unemployment in the country.