Solly Mapaila has accused ANC leaders of publicly lying about consulting the party’s alliance partners on the government of national unity
Motenyane Masukela faces schedule one charges of assisting an inmate to escape
Police trade union president calls for an end to the public-private prison system, citing the foreign company is more concerned with profit than rehabilitation
However, abuse and torture at the prison have improved, the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services says
Public service unions, the government return to the bargaining table as a second wave of strikes looms
Commentators have weighed in on the Transnet strike’s economic hit, but strike season isn’t over yet
Workers are in the throes of a cost of living crisis, which could force the government to fold on its hard line against more spending
Jeremy Vearey encouraged a ‘mini insurrection’ with his Facebook posts, arbitration hearing finds
Vearey’s defence seeks advantage from suspension cloud hanging over police head Khehla Sitole
The arbitration hearing in which former cop Jeremy Vearey was challenging his dismissal concluded its proceedings on Monday 13 September
The fired cop’s arbitration hearing was postponed to next month just as police put forward video material
Three men made off with shotguns, R5 rifles, pistols and ammunition after pouncing on the Tsineng police station
The province gets a permanent police commissioner to fight crime and violence during a time of instability in the police force
The police union said it would challenge the process that led to the axing of the Western Cape head of detectives
Popcru used its ninth congress to focus on restoring the rights of police and correctional service workers
Numsa general secretary Irvin Jim says he laid a formal criminal case against Popcru’s Matsemela after he publicly threatened to kill him.
Numsa says its general secretary, Irvin Jim, has received fresh death threats, while its president Cedric Gina’s resignation was polically motivated.
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/ 9 September 2011
Police captain Ntombizakhe Mcaba, fired as the first vice-president of the Popcru has won her court battle for reinstatement.
Popcru members claim the expulsions is intended to prevent them from raising issues of corruption within the union.
Security around hospitals must be tightened, Parliament has insisted, in the wake of the murder of a doctor by a patient at a hospital in Mpumalanga.
Popcru is disgusted by the killing of a doctor at the Middleburg Hospital in Mpumalanga, a spokesperson has said.
Members of Popcru are fed up with inaction over alleged graft and mismanagement among its leaders and say they are taking over all Popcru’s offices.
Conflict in police and prisons union escalates amid allegations of corruption and fraud.
In the past 15 years SA trade unions have taken to investing money from monthly subscriptions in business ventures which, they say is a benefit.
As rifts in Popcru grow, the <i>M&G</i> has seen irrefutable documentary evidence that its national treasurer earned a staggering R7,5-million in 2008
Senior office bearers of Popcru disagree with union’s blanket support for the commissioner.
A former leader of police union Popcru has accused the union’s current president and treasurer of self-advancement at the expense of members.
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/ 20 September 2010
Jonah Fisher, I now know how you must have felt when you got kicked out of that now-legendary press conference. Well, sort of, anyway.
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/ 17 September 2010
Cosatu-affiliated union Popcru on Friday took exception to an <i>M&G</i> article about a fake Facebook profile of Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven.
About 145 000 police and traffic officers as well as prison warders will join the public sector wage strike on Saturday.
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/ 8 September 2008
Trade union Popcru said on Monday that the ”unilateral restructuring process” in the South African Police Service (SAPS) had been stopped.
Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has been given 14 days by the South African Human Rights Commission to retract his ”kill for Zuma” statement.