Postal Services Minister Siyabonga Cwele has allegedly asked the Sapo board to resign or be fired, and a new administrator is waiting in the wings.
The treasury has a hungry, and growing, army of public servants to feed.
Speak it like it is – government administration is a shambles.
A serious misunderstanding about the uneveness of the apartheid state has resulted in major policy errors.
Leaders in the public and private sectors must show they are serious about change.
South Africa’s conservative economic policy
may be stable, but it’s stifling transformation, writes <b>Nic Dawes</b>.
As the country reels from twin strikes by the metal and chemical worker unions, a further strike is looming by nearly a million members of Cosatu.
Public-sector unions have accepted the government’s wage offer, the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union confirmed on Tuesday evening.
Public-sector unions are to meet on Wednesday afternoon for a final decision on whether the majority of unions will accept the government’s pay offer.
Public Service Minister Richard Baloyi said on Tuesday he hoped to never see a repeat of this year’s public-sector strike.
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/ 12 October 2010
The Health And Other Service Personnel Trade Union of South Africa (Hospersa) will not be signing the government’s wage offer, the union has said.
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/ 9 September 2010
The strike may be over but the anxiety has only just begun for matric students. We talk to pupils from public and private schools.
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/ 6 September 2010
South African public sector workers suspended a pay strike on Monday as it entered its fourth week, union officials said.
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/ 3 September 2010
A question that plagues <b>Pat Schwartz</b> most about this strike: At what point does the right to fair pay trump the right to life?
The Cabinet has urged public-service wage negotiators to urgently find an amicable and win-win solution to the strike.
The public-sector strike is set to continue after unions late on Wednesday rejected a revised government wage offer.
Paralysing public-sector strikes are entering their third week, but things are no better in the private sector.
Cosatu has suspended its planned solidarity strike to give unions time to consult members on the government’s latest pay offer, it said on Wednesday.
State workers will vote on Tuesday on an increased wage offer made by the government to try to end a nearly three-week-old strike, Cosatu said.
President Jacob Zuma has instructed all the ministers in the public-service sector to return to the negotiating table in an attempt to end the strike.
Members of the South African Security Forces Union (Sasfu) will not join the public-sector strike, union president Bhekinkosi Mvovo said on Sunday.
Concern is mounting from the government and economists over the pressure the public-sector wage bill is placing on the state.
Eighty-three volunteers arrived for work at Kalafong hospital in Atteridgeville on Tuesday.
Government’s failure to provide contingency plans for chronically ill patients during the strike could have "disastrous individual consequences".
An interim interdict that prohibits all members of the SAPS from joining the public-service strike was granted in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Cosatu has threatened a total shutdown of the economy with a secondary strike if government fails to settle its dispute with workers by next Thursday.
Public-service unions on Tuesday accused the government of creative accounting, as the state urged workers to reconsider its wage offer.
There is only one-tenth of a percent difference between what striking workers are demanding and what the state is offering, the government says.
Several hospital deaths have been reported since a strike started last week, but government was cautious about linking them directly to the strike.
The government will take measures against striking workers who seek to disrupt basic service delivery, Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele says.
Hospersa’s 72 000 members will join the public service sector national strike on Thursday after the union failed to reach a wage agreement.
Public-sector workers embarked on a full-blown, indefinite strike on Wednesday after rejecting the government’s latest pay offer.