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/ 19 October 2009
Numsa on Monday said it was concerned about a report on the way the Industrial Development Corporation was using public funds.
Cosatu affiliates protested against labour brokering on Wednesday and threatened strikes if the practice was not ended.
The Labour Court ruled that General Motors SA contravened regulations when it retrenched more than 200 workers without following proper procedures.
General Motors SA will on Thursday oppose a Labour Court bid by Numsa to have retrenched workers reinstated.
Cosatu on Thursday backed a call by metal workers for strikes to demand deeper interest-rate cuts.
Numsa will on Monday ask all Cosatu affiliates to join a national rolling mass action, should the Reserve Bank not cut interest rates.
Numsa on Monday condemned Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni’s refusal to accept a petition they wanted to hand over last week.
Communist Blade Nzimande was made Minister of Higher Education because he was a revolutionary, metalworkers heard in Boksburg on Tuesday.
Numsa leaders launched a scathing attack against Cope on Monday, saying its founders had inferiority complexes and were ”honorary whites”.
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/ 12 November 2008
Numsa has accused Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and SARB Governor Tito Mboweni of being key architects behind unpopular macroeconomic policies.
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/ 18 October 2008
Trade union supporters of ANC president Jacob Zuma scored a victory this week by toppling one of former president Thabo Mbeki’s most vocal supporters.
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/ 16 October 2008
Cedric Gina has been elected as the new leader of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa).
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/ 14 October 2008
ANC president Jacob Zuma was greeted with a song insisting he become president as he arrived at Numsa’s eighth conference on Tuesday.
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/ 13 October 2008
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa began its eighth national congress in Vanderbijlpark, outside Johannesburg, on Monday.
The Eastern Cape branch of the National Union of Metalworkers has called on its members to down tools on Wednesday in protest at high food prices.
Over 50 vehicle dealerships across the country have shut up shop since the beginning of the year because of plunging sales, according to industry.
Global analysts Lehman Brothers wondered out loud on Friday morning whether some notably hawkish statements by Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni on Thursday might be a signal that a rate hike of 100 basis points could be on the cards come June 12.
A wave of xenophobic attacks spread through Johannesburg townships on Monday. Mobs beat foreigners and set some ablaze in scenes reminiscent of apartheid-era violence. A total of 22 people have now been killed in the violence directed at immigrants around Johannesburg, which began a week ago.
Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi on Friday accused President Thabo Mbeki’s government of deliberately seeking to emasculate the African National Congress. A new style of political leadership is required, he told the National Union of Metalworkers in the Eastern Cape.
The Congress of South Africa Trade Unions (Cosatu) will stage the first of a series of protests against rising food prices in a march through Polokwane in Limpopo on Sunday, spokesperson Patrick Craven said on Friday. Besides drawing attention to rising food prices, the protesters will also complain about the electricity crisis.
About 800 workers face retrenchment at BHP Billiton’s Bayside aluminium smelter in Richards Bay, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) said on Tuesday. Spokesperson Mziwakhe Hlangani said company management confirmed that it will be issuing final notices to the affected workers on the weekend.
About 800 workers face retrenchment at BHP Billiton’s Bayside aluminium smelter in Richards Bay, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) said on Tuesday. Spokesperson Mziwakhe Hlangani said management had confirmed that it would be issuing final notices to the affected workers at the weekend.
Senior Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) officials who are supporters of President Thabo Mbeki are not facing the axe, the trade-unionfederation said on Monday. Cosatu dismissed reports that three senior officials were in the firing line as ”totally untrue”.
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/ 25 February 2008
No life could be ”sacrificed” in the name of profits, mining magnate and businessman Patrice Motsepe told protesting workers at a ferromanganese smelter near Durban on Monday. He was speaking to workers who on Monday staged a protest at the Assmang smelter following Sunday’s blast, which claimed the lives of five people.
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/ 25 February 2008
An explosion that ripped through a ferromanganese smelter near Durban on Sunday and claimed the lives of five people sparked protests by workers as a Labour Department inquiry into workers’ exposure to poisonous fumes was about to start on Monday morning.
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/ 30 January 2008
Vehicle maker Ford Motor Company of Southern African (Ford SA) plans to invest more than R1,5-billion to expand operations for its next-generation compact pickup truck and Puma diesel engine, it said on Wednesday. The investment will start in 2009 and be split between its assembly plant in Pretoria, and engine facility in Port Elizabeth.
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/ 26 September 2007
General Motors South Africa is "relieved" that the two-week-old strike in the motor-component industry has ended. Several South African motor manufacturers were badly affected by the strike, which forced them to shut down production facilities due to a lack of parts. The strike ended on Tuesday evening.
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/ 24 September 2007
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and the Retail Motor Industry have reached a provisional agreement regarding the strike in the motor components industry. Numsa spokesperson Mziwakhe Hlangani said Numsa members would be briefed about the agreement at local and regional offices on Tuesday.
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/ 22 September 2007
Talks to end a strike that has halted production at South Africa’s major car-manufacturing plants will continue on Saturday, Retail Motor Industry executive director Jakkie Olivier said on Friday. Workers in the motor-components industry went on strike on September 12 over wages.
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/ 20 September 2007
Talks to end the motor-components industry strike were to resume at 6pm on Thursday, the Retail Motor Industry’s (RMI) spokesperson Jakkie Olivier said. ”We made good progress on Wednesday and we’re set to begin talking at 6pm this evening. I think an agreement is imminent,” he said.
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/ 19 September 2007
Volkswagen South Africa is ”on the brink of disaster” because of the motor-industry components strike, MD David Powels said on Wednesday. The six-day-old work stoppage has so far cost the company a production loss of 500 cars per day. Volkswagen’s Uitenhage plant has been brought to a standstill.
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/ 17 September 2007
Negotiations in a bid to resolve a crippling motor-industry strike will resume on Monday night, the Retail Motor Industry said on Monday. The four-day strike has seen several motoring-manufacturing plants temporarily closing their doors as parts became unavailable.