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Affirmation: Solidarity with Cuba, marking 65 years since the failed Bay of Pigs invasion by the imperialist US regime, which sought to destroy the Cuban Revolution. Photo: SACP

We stand with Cuba, our friend

The protests rejected this. They insisted that what we are seeing is the expansion of a single logic: imperial in character, colonial in structure, even when it speaks the…

Former public service director-general Yoliswa Makhasi

Pressure mounts over parliamentary vetting after Yoliswa Makhasi’s appointment

Internal correspondence reveals that parliament is assessing whether due diligence was conducted before appointing Makhasi, as union complaints resurface

Red flag: South African Communist Party general secretary Solly Mapaila. Photo: Luba Lesolle/Gall Images

SACP: We are contesting the elections, but not the ANC

The SACP had planned to run in 2024 national and provincial elections but pulled back because of the number of parties funded by white capital

Bheki Mtolo. (File photo)

ANC’s Bheki Mtolo apologises about Nehawu slur, alliance partners paper over GNU cracks

Fikile Mbalula said differing views about unity government members were fine, but ‘personal attacks and labelling’ were not

The Just Energy Transition is a shift to lower carbon technologies and resources, while ensuring that society, jobs and livelihoods will not be harmed. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Unions unhappy as cabinet gives nod to energy transition plan

Labour organisations say their input was not heeded and jobs will be threatened

Relebohile Mafokane. File photo

Heads roll following ‘wasteful’ R134 million North West security tender

‘Administration paralysis’ caused by alleged squabbles has led to the suspension of senior provincial officials

Bringing policy to fruition in training South African nurses ==== South Africa needs to retain nurses and encourage the next generation to join the profession.

How much do state nurses, porters and cleaners earn?

State health workers will remain cash-strapped as the government battles to rein in its massive public sector wage bill

Nehawu members protest outside George Tabor Technical College in Soweto on 8 March 2023. (Fani Mahuntsi/ Gallo Images)

Nehawu-led public sector strike at an end, bargaining council says

Meanwhile, the Public Servants Association has turned down the government’s 7% salary raise proposal, saying it does not account for the soaring cost of living

Unhealthy state of affairs: Nehawu members protest outside Bheki Mlangeni Hospital in Soweto on Wednesday. Photo: Fani Mahuntsi/Gallo Images

Nehawu strike: Capitalism has led to a crisis of humanity

Ethics of protest are called into question as union’s action sees the lives of sick people put at risk and women in labour turned away from hospitals

Nehauw union members in Cape Town. Photo: GroungUp

Nehawu strike could have resulted in four deaths, says health minister

Joe Phaahla said no one needing emergency care should be turned away from health facilities, as had happened during the strike

Tembisa Tertiary Hospital

How ‘corruption mafia’ looted Gauteng hospitals

Ashley Mthunzi, the suspended Tembisa Tertiary Hospital chief executive, signed off on R3-million in purchases that were not vetted

The need to tackle racial inequality in health is worldwide

‘Corruption mafia’ looting Gauteng’s ailing health system

Ashley Mthunzi, the now-suspended Tembisa Hospital chief executive, is allegedly the head of a corrupt supply-chain management clique

(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Strike looms at Sars over 0% wage increase

The revenue collector says it is unable to offer its 12 479 staff any salary increase, leading Nehawu and others to announce strike action

They made arrangements with the provincial treasurers to pay the staff in the provinces, but they don’t seem to know who has been paid and who hasn’t.”  (Photo by Gallo Images/Sharon Seretlo)

ANC employees paid, but strike not over yet

Workers want UFI, medical aid and provident fund contributions brought up to date

ANC Luthuli House in Pixley Ka Isaka Seme St, Johannesburg. Photo: Supplied

Nehawu challenges the ANC’s mismanagement of staff salaries in court

Labour union Nehawu has taken the ANC to court in a bid to force the party to pay its staff, who have not received their salaries for months.