Tag: COSATU
South Africa’s largest labour union plans nationwide strike over mass layoffs
South Africa’s largest labour union group, with more than a million and a half members, said on Wednesday it would stage a nationwide strike...
Anti-Zuma protests in major SA cities
Thousands of South Africans marched in anti-corruption protests on Wednesday, in a rallying cry against scandal-plagued President Jacob Zuma and his allies...
SANEF threatens to drag info Bill battle to court
The South African National Editors' Forum (SANEF) has again threatened legal action if a public interest defence clause is left out of...
SA secrecy laws could freeze out investors and media
South Africa's ANC is reviving apartheid-era secrecy laws that could make exposing corruption or dodgy government deals punishable with prison, raising fears...
Protection of Information Bill, a threat to whistle-blowers
The Congress of South African Trade Unions is deeply concerned that the Parliamentary Ad Hoc Committee has begun clause-by-clause voting on a...
Migration law under review
Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma says there is a need to transform the migration laws of South Africa. Speaking at the...
SA communists want review of govt tenders
The South African Communist Party (SACP) called for a review of the process under which government contracts are awarded and demanded that...
SONA reaction mixed
President Jacob Zuma's State of the Nation Address has elicited a mixed response from business, unions, politicians and the commentariat with the...
SA ANC calls for end to “street fights”
South Africa's ruling African National Congress called yesterday for an end to "street fights" after its youth movement criticized senior...
Zuma spells out agenda, praises SANDF
President Jacob Zuma has praised the role of the South African National Defence in supporting foreign policy through its active participation in United Nations...
