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Workers demand that they be made permanent employees of provincial health departments — with higher salaries, as well as medical aid and pension benefits — instead of being outsourced to nonprofits organisations that pay them stipend.
BOB MASH

Why Covid likely won’t change the plight of community health workers

In the absence of action from the health department, South Africa’s community health workers are once again having to fight for their rights, with a nationwide strike planned…

  • Joan Van Dyk
19 min read
Minister of Public Works Patricia de Lille.
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS

De Lille hastens IDT closure

The Independent Development Trust’s board and the department of public works and infrastructure have agreed to devise an exit plan, which will see the entity closed by early next…

  • Thando Maeko
3 min read
Change of mind: Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure Patricia de Lille rowed back on her decision to terminate the IDT because of poor project management and performance. (David Harrison/M&G)
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS

Crucial state workers given lifeline

Employees at the beleaguered IDT have been given a three-month extension of their contracts

  • Thando Maeko
3 min read
The crux of the issue, says senior lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand Lumkile Mondi, is how to hold the government accountable.
ESKOM

Unions lock negotiators in amid public sector wage talks deadlock

On Wednesday morning, it was not immediately clear how long the negotiators had been locked in.

  • Tehillah Nieselow
3 min read
Zille’s Aids testing incentive campaign angers YCL
HELEN ZILLE

Zille’s Aids testing incentive campaign angers YCL

The Young Communist League has dubbed Western Cape premier Helen Zille’s campaign of offering incentives to people testing for HIV/Aids as immoral.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read