A skills shortage in the SAA technical division could cause problems in retaining US approval to operate on its routes, Solidarity warned on Monday.
Allegations that Investec conducted insider trading or misled the public over inflation have been dismissed for now, the FSB says.
No insider trading took place at Investec, Solidarity said on Thursday.
Hundreds of ”poor whites” from the Bethlehem informal settlement in Pretoria West will meet ANC president Jacob Zuma on Thursday, Solidarity says.
Trade union Solidarity has signed a 12% wage increase for its members with Sasol Mining, the union said on Thursday.
Trade union Solidarity on Friday said 100 of its members were trapped 900m underground at Gold Fields’ Beatrix mine outside of Welkom in the Free State
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African National Congress president Jacob Zuma expressed surprise at the level of poverty among white people during a tour of an informal settlement outside Pretoria on Friday. ”I did not think it was at this level,” he said as he talked with the small, poor white community living at Bethlehem.
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Common ground on affirmative action should be found, African National Congress president Jacob Zuma told a largely white Afrikaner gathering on Thursday night. He told union members that they had no home other than South Africa and as such, their concerns should be taken seriously.
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Trade union Solidarity is introducing its own medical fund in a move against what it called "high medical rates", it said on Wednesday. "It’s a non-profit service. We don’t want to make millions out of the sick, but make private healthcare more accessible to the people of South Africa," said Jaco Kleynhans, Solidarity spokesperson.