While the Walter Sisulu University’s staff went on strike, Blade Nzimande and Jacob Zuma were at work proving their commitment to better education.
Over 21 000 National Union of Mineworkers members are still on strike, despite the acceptance of an 8% offer by the majority of gold mineworkers.
Countrywide strikes by mining, transport and metalworkers has weakened the rand and eroded investor confidence.
More workers in the motor industry, including petrol attendants affiliated to Numsa, will down tools next week.
The National Union of Mineworkers is preparing for a strike in the gold mining and construction sectors.
The utility is going to court to declare all walkouts unprotected, but the unions are fighting back. Phillip de Wet reports.
Pikitup workers aligned with Samwu are set to embark on an illegal strike, the City of Johannesburg’s waste management entity has announced.
We chat to our education reporters about the ANC’s announcement to make education an essential service: what does this mean and will it have any real effect?
South Africa’s fruit industry is beginning to tally the losses after two weeks of unrest by striking farm workers across the Western Cape.
Farmers beef up security amid threats of more violence should workers’ wages not be increased.
You do not have to have done much travelling in the new South Africa to see how dramatically the rural landscape has changed.
A strike by emergency medical services employees has resulted in several areas of the Eastern Cape being left without state-owned ambulance services.
Fed-up farm workers have bypassed unions and political parties and have taken matters into their own hands, writes Sean Christie.
A community leader says the farm workers in the Western Cape were ignored despite their value to the economy, Lynley Donnelly reports.
If you were looking for moral clarity this week, the smoke-dimmed sunlight of the Cape winelands was not the place to find it.
Minister of Agriculture Tina Joemat-Pettersson and farm workers’ organisations have agreed to suspend the workers’ strike for two weeks.
Western Cape farm workers will suspend their protests over wages and living conditions for two weeks, Acting Labour Minister Angie Motshekga has said.
Anglo American Platinum has made a new offer to striking workers in an attempt to get operations running again, the company confirmed on Wednesday.
The body of a Mozambican miner was found in a veld at Amplats’ Amandelbult mine after a number of other miners were assaulted.
Hundreds of striking Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) workers have gathered at a mass rally at the Olympia Park Stadium in Rustenburg.
The effects of the recent strikes are expected to impact on results for the last quarter of the year. Chantelle Benjamin reports.
In media coverage of the strikes, no effort has been spared to demonise the National Union of Mineworkersm, writes reader Mathew Blatchford.
After a week that saw mounting arrests to counter the spreading strikes, the Trotskyite Democratic Socialist Movement paused to plot a way forward.
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/ 19 October 2012
After nearly two months of wildcat strikes, mine workers are divided some are throwing in the towel, whereas others are sticking to high wage demands.
President Jacob Zuma this week announced the first concrete measures aimed at bringing the violent illegal strikes that have flared up under control.
Although the National Union of Mineworkers has welcomed the police action, mine workers want their colleagues freed, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
Workers have held Sishen mine hostage with demands far higher than their peers elsewhere. The developments have left the company dumbfounded.
A slow, sure, violent implosion appears to be building in South Africa’s largest and formerly most powerful union – the National Union of Mineworkers.
The Labour Court is due to rule on Friday morning whether 42000 Satawu members at two Transnet divisions may legally go on strike next week.
The intensity of the current wave of protest echoes the far-reaching Durban strikes in 1973, writes Lisa Steyn.
Three trade unions have agreed to adjust their pay demand in an attempt to end a protracted strike by thousands of truck drivers.
Hundreds of the 12 000 miners sacked by Amplats have rejected their dismissal and some say they will use violence to get their jobs back.