The South African government is considering purchasing cheaper cars for government ministers to save money.
News24 reports, “Downgrading the cars would, he stressed, be only one option. But he is prepared to consider others, including one suggested by a participant in the press conference who wanted to see ministers drawing a car from a [...]
Schabir Shaik, who had been released from a South African prison on medical grounds, was spotted playing golf, violating his parole terms.
Times Live reports, “DA shadow minister of correctional services James Selfe today said if this is true, then it further undermines the criminal justice system in the eyes of South Africans. ‘There is now [...]
[Mail & Guardian]– The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Tuesday it is extremely angry at what it called Eskom’s “outrageous and insensitive” request for a whopping 45% a year electricity tariff hike over the next three years.
It would mean that by the end of those three years [...]
[News24]– Metro police department employees who abandoned work to protest against the return of their boss were back at work on Friday, said an official.
“They are back at work,” said spokesperson Inspector Edna Mamonyane.
The workers belonging to the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) stopped working on Thursday in protest against the [...]
[News24]– South Africa’s roads could claim more lives than HIV/Aids and malaria combined by 2020, if accidents are not prevented, Transport Minister Sbu Ndebele said on Sunday.
He was speaking at the funeral, in Queenstown, of six people who died in a taxi accident on the N6 freeway last week.
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A total of 460 soldiers were instructed to vacate their work premises in dismissal letters sent them on Monday, a union said.
“We can confirm that some soldiers have received letters to terminate their services,” the South African National Defence Union’s legal adviser Michael Thekiso said.
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At least 9 000 post office workers, undeterred by snow and gusty winds, began a nationwide strike on Thursday, the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) said.
“Our members are determined as hell, nothing will stop them from this industrial action not even weather conditions like snow or rain,” CWU general secretary Gallant Roberts said, as South Africa experienced [...]
