Civil-rights organisation, AfriForum, has submitted further legal opinion on South Africa’s proposed Protection of State Information Bill to President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday. According to AfriForum CEO, Er...
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The South African business community and the world at large is now breathing a sigh of relief as it emerged on Tuesday that the warring parties in the more than five month strike in the platinum industry was of...
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After the news on Thursday about the willingness of the workers’ representatives to sign a deal with the mining bosses, it has emerged that the talks are at a more advanced stage to broker a deal to end S...
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After a number of protracted negotiations, walk outs and many hungry tummies, the longest strike in the history of South Africa appears to be nearing its end. This was made abundantly clear on Thursday when the...
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State electricity provider, Eskom, has issued a statement declaring an electricity state of emergency countrywide. In a statement by Eskom on Facebook earlier today, the service provider claimed that the power ...
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South African president, Jacob Zuma, has stated that he will provide a report on the Nkandla controversy within the next 30 days. President Zuma has recieved a provisional copy of the Special Investigating Unit...
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The wage related strike by the platinum workers in the North West is set to continue amid revelations that government-led wage talks have collapsed, it was reported on Monday. The talks, in which the government...
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Newly appointed South African Minister of Mines, Ngoako Ramatlhodi, has pulled out of his wage talks which were currently underway between AMCU and the platinum mining companies, Lonmin, Anglo American Platinum...
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The Minister of Mineral Resources will meet with mining bosses on Thursday in Pretoria in an attempt to find a settlement that will bring to an end the longest and most paralyzing strike in the recent history o...
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The police had to fire rubber bullets to disperse strikers who were blocking the entrance to the power utility, Eskom’s Medupi Power Station on Thursday. Thursday was the third day of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) organised strike. The strike, which involves more than 200 000 metal and engineering workers, the largest single labour grouping, started on Tuesday. They are calling for salary increments of between twelve and fifteen percent from... Read more »
