Strikes and a slowdown in consumer spending are having a knock-on effect on the South African economy, writes Lynley Donnelly.
The mining sector’s wildcat strikes has left a deeper dent in the SA economy than expected with only a 1.2% real gross domestic product increase.
Agriculture Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson will hold an urgent meeting in Pretoria to discuss the strike by De Doorns farmworkers.
Teachers have ignored a court order and they have joined forces with disgruntled nurses who were reined in by the state, writes John Grobler.
The Congress of the South African Trade Unions says it will hold a protest action against the dismissal of illegally striking mineworkers.
Proposals unveiled by President Jacob Zuma – intended to quell economic turbulence – have been slated by analysts and politicians for lacking detail.
President Jacob Zuma has moved to restore confidence in South Africa’s economy by unveiling a wide-ranging plan to address ongoing labour unrest.
Two months of labour turmoil are likely to force SA to look again at its economic growth forecasts, the central bank’s deputy governor said on Sunday.
The Pimples kids get their toys thrown out of the cot by truckers taking part in the transport strike.
Negotiations to end a two-week labour dispute between most truckers and employers ended without an agreement on Tuesday.
A strike by truck drivers is set to spread to rail and port workers this week, the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union said.
Wildcat strikes at platinum, gold, coal, diamond, chrome and iron ore mines continued across a number of provinces.
Miners at Kumba Iron Ore’s Sishen mine have gone on a wildcat strike – a fresh sign of escalating labour unrest in Africa’s largest economy.
South Africa’s debt market should continue to benefit after it becomes the first in Africa to be included in a prominent global bond index.
Striking mineworkers hit back at claims by Anglo American Platinum that protesters near its Thembelani mine in Rustenburg are not its employees.
Increased labour unrest in the face of stubborn unemployment levels was a key risk to South Africa’s economic outlook according to the IMF.
Julius Malema has urged strikers at the Impala Platinum mine in Rustenburg to negotiate a peaceful end to their labor dispute, which has left 3people dead.
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Striking workers from Impala Platinum have intimidated workers reporting for duty, angry with the ongoing impasse with the company.
The City of Johannesburg faces an uphill battle to get commuters back onto the Rea Vaya buses after nearly two months of industrial action.
The NUM is meeting with Impala Platinum to avoid a possible wage strike which could hurt the world’s second-largest platinum producer.
Striking coal and gold miners will meet the Chamber of Mines in a bid to end strikes that have cost the country tens of millions of dollars.
SA gold miners will down tools on Thursday, intensifying a wave of strikes and potentially costing the sector $25-million a day.
About 150 000 SA coal workers seeking 14% wage increases plan to walk off the job from Sunday in a strike that could hurt power supplies.
The National Petroleum Employers’ Association denied walking out of wage talks on Friday. "We are still here," said spokesperson Mxolisi Ratsibe.
Metrorail has said an illegal strike by its train drivers over the lack of security and high rate of abuse and harassment by commuters has ended.
The Newcastle clothing industry has become a metaphor for the crucial debate about jobs in South Africa, writes <b>Teague Payne</b>.
South Africa’s conservative economic policy
may be stable, but it’s stifling transformation, writes <b>Nic Dawes</b>.
The textile and clothing industry urgently needs to get over this narrow-minded dispute around wages, says Renato Palmi, a researcher.
South Africa’s main fuel sector union and employees at state power utility Eskom said on Thursday they had rejected the latest raise offers.
Workers in the coal sector will embark on a strike following failed wage negotiations, the National Union of Mineworkers said on Wednesday.
A renewed offer from employers in the metal and steel industry would be considered by unions this weekend.
Employers and unions in the petroleum sector have indicated a willingness to meet, the bargaining council for the Chemical Industry has said.