Samwu leaders will meet their employer, the SA Local Government Association (Salga), on Wednesday to try to resolve an ongoing national strike.
The SA Local Government Association has withdrawn its Labour Court application to halt a nationwide strike by municipal workers.
Up to 60 000 workers aligned with Samwu will stage a nationwide strike following a failed application by their employer to halt the action.
Negotiations between municipal workers and their employers remain deadlocked, unions said on Thursday afternoon.
The economic crisis has the potential to affect the revenue and tax base of municipalities, which may hamper delivery, Kgalema Motlanthe said.
Municipalities are at risk whether Eskom’s interim price increase of 34% was granted or not, the South African Local Government Association said.
Electricity authorities on Monday called for action to deal with a R25-billion maintenance backlog that could further stifle economic growth.
Members of the South African Municipal Workers’ Union downed tools in Limpopo on Friday, the union said. Samwu said the protesters were gathering at SABC Park in Polokwane and would march to the offices of the provincial minister of local government later on Friday.
Sexual harassment of women in miniskirts at Johannesburg taxi ranks has been occurring for at least eight years, the Gauteng community safety portfolio committee heard on Thursday. However, only one incident has been reported to the police.
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/ 20 February 2008
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, while delivering his national budget speech in Parliament on Wednesday, made a point of replying to a number of South Africans who had sent budgetary suggestions to him under the "Tips for Trevor" programme.
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The government is committed to meeting its target of eradicating the bucket-toilet system in all formal settlements established before 1994, it said on Tuesday. To ensure this deadline was met an amount of R1,6-billion had been made available ”to provide better and more acceptable sanitation for all”.
The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) said on Friday it was ”angered” by Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula saying the integration of metro police forces into the South African Police Service (SAPS) was inevitable. On Thursday, Nqakula told a media briefing at Parliament that no one could stop the incorporation of metro police into the SAPS.
Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi met municipal labour unions in Pretoria on Monday to discuss the government’s initiative for a single public service, the ministry said. The initiative seeks to create one public-service administration for all three tiers of government.