Among the labour federation’s demands are that pension reforms be implemented on 1 March 2024 and intervention municipalities that fail to employees
		
	 
	
		
		Police Minister Bheki Cele and his team of officers appear to be better at arresting radials than criminals
		
	 
	
		
		But the party’s ‘aspirations of chaos’ must be curbed and it alienates mostly peace-loving citizens with rhetoric that borders on ‘warmongering’ 
		
	 
	
		
		Eligible voters no longer vote; they don’t trust any politician. The UDF, a coalition of hundreds of small organisations, could be an answer
		
	 
	
		
		Police said that by 10pm on Monday night, at least 550 protestors had been arrested and 24 300 tyres were confiscated 
		
	 
	
		
		Julius Malema has touted the shutdown as the start of a ‘revolution’
		
	 
	
		
		The stayaway will test the party’s leadership, machinery and ability to mobilise its supporters on the streets and in the election booths
		
	 
	
		
		Unions failed to shut down the economy on August 24. Growing membership and better leadership are vital for them to be an effective social force
		
	 
	
		
		Paddy Harper isn’t the only one who’s broke: everyone from Zuma to Luthuli House, never mind the chronically unemployed, is feeling the pinch these days 
		
	 
	
		
		Only a handful of attempts to blockade roads took place in response to Monday’s shutdown call
		
	 
	
		
		ANC leaders are to ask deputy secretary general Jesse Duarte discuss his 15-month sentence and to call on his supporters to return to their homes
		
	 
	
		
		Vice-chancellors tell parliament that there needs to be a lasting national solution to the funding issues as they cannot deal with them on their own
		
	 
	
		
		Police shot at students who had been peacefully marching in the streets of Johannesburg during the first day of the national shutdown on Monday