Articles containing the tag ‘strike
By Oliver Ngwenya On Tuesday, October 7th, 2014

Muvhango Actors Not Paid, Strike Looming?

The public broadcaster in South Africa, the South African Broadcasting Cooperation (SABC) has said that it will investigate the reason why the members of the cast of their flagship production soapie, Muvhango w... Read more »
By Oliver Ngwenya On Sunday, September 21st, 2014

Generations Going Off Air for Two Months Following Strike by Main Actors

Generations the soap opera has been with us for as long as we can remember. It had got to a stage where we assumed that it was always going to be a permanent feature of our television sets. That is until a few ... Read more »
By Oliver Ngwenya On Sunday, August 17th, 2014

Resounding Mathunjwa Welcome as Government Shuns Marikana Commemorations

On Saturday, AMCU president, Joseph Matunjwa, arrived to a resounding welcome to Wonderkop near Marikana to a gathering was to commemorate two years after the fateful day when when forty four people were killed... Read more »
By Oliver Ngwenya On Tuesday, July 29th, 2014

Unemployment Rate Increases to 25.5%

Statistic South Africa has released their analysis of the unemployment figures of the second quarter of 2014 and they indicate that the unemployment rate has increased by 0.03%, up from the figure of the first ... Read more »
By Oliver Ngwenya On Monday, July 28th, 2014

Numsa Accepts Government-Brokered Wage Deal of 10% Increase

The National Union of Metalworkers South Africa (Numsa), a union that represents engineering workers, has agreed to end a month long strike after it accepted a 10% wage increase offer from employers, a union le... Read more »
By Oliver Ngwenya On Sunday, July 27th, 2014

Numsa Consulting Members on New Wage Deal

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) said on Sunday it is consulting its members on the wage offer in the metal sector. Speaking after the national executive committee (NEC) special meetin... Read more »
By Oliver Ngwenya On Friday, July 18th, 2014

Reserve Bank Raises Repo Rate by 0.25%

In a decision that was not unanimous, the Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has decided to raise the repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.75%, effective from July 18. The governor of the SARB, G... Read more »
By Oliver Ngwenya On Wednesday, July 16th, 2014

Employers Say No More Wage Offer for NUMSA

The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of South Africa (SEIFSA) has said that there will be no more offers on the table after reports emerged that the workers representatives had rejected the latest of... Read more »
By Robert On Friday, July 4th, 2014

NUMSA Strike Violence Continues

In excess of 100 factories on the East Rand of Johannesburg have resorted to shutting their doors in order to protect themselves from the threat of violence related to the Numsa strike happening currently. Nati... Read more »