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Move away from Eskom threatens Joburg revenue stream

Finance MMC Dada Morero says the move by households and businesses to alternative sources of power will put the city’s finances under strain → Read More

Joburg revenue flow at risk amid flight from Eskom power cuts

Finance MMC Dada Morero says the move by households and businesses to alternative sources of power will put the city’s finances under strain → Read More

Court interdicts essential service workers taking part in Nehawu strike

Nehawu’s national spokesperson said the union was waiting for its legal department to give it advice on the judgment, after which it would make a pronouncement on the way forward. → Read More

Chaotic Nehawu strike is ‘untenable’, says bargaining council

Nehawu puts the government’s resolve to keep the public sector wage bill in check to its severest test → Read More

Tshwane metro crisis deepens as budget deadline approaches

Tshwane must approve its budget adjustment by the end of the month but has yet to name a new mayor and mayoral committee after the disqualification of Murunwa Makwarela → Read More

Healthcare services disrupted as Nehawu wage strike continues

Unions at odds with reports and provincial health departments on violence, intimidation and compromised patient care → Read More

Labour calls on Noxolo Kiviet to repair government-worker relations

Labour federations have urged the new public service & administration minister to move quickly in addressing the strained relationship → Read More

Kgosientsho Ramokgopa named as the new Mr Fixit

Ramaphosa announces Ramokgopa as minister for electricity and Paul Mashatile as SA’s new deputy president among changes → Read More

Labour court interdicts Nehawu’s wage strike, again

Disruptions reported ahead of the latest labour court ruling → Read More

Sars data is evidence Ramaphosa ‘breached law’ over Phala Phala dollars

The DA has Sars information that the $580,000 President Cyril Ramaphosa said he received from Hazim Mustafa as payment for the sale of game, was not declared to Sars → Read More

It was buffalo buyer’s responsibility to declare money to Sars, says presidency

No record that the tax agency was told of the $580,000 President Cyril Ramaphosa said he received for the sale of game → Read More

Public sector wage strike interdicted

Members of trade union Nehawu were set to start an indefinite strike from Monday in support of demands for an above-inflation pay increase. → Read More

Nehawu appeals strike interdict, industrial action to go ahead

Members of trade union Nehawu are set to start an indefinite strike from Monday in support of demands for an above-inflation pay increase → Read More

Samwu wants heads to roll for R418m irregular spending

The union is demanding accountability over dodgy procurements → Read More

Mashatile calls for unity in fractious tripartite alliance

ANC deputy president says renewal requires stronger alliance with the SACP and Cosatu → Read More

BREAKING NEWS: COPE councillor Murunwa Makwarela elected Tshwane metro executive mayor

Makwarela vows to uphold good governance principles and plans to appoint a team to address the city’s financial crisis → Read More

Public service unions gear up for indefinite wage strike

A strike notice delivered to the department of public service & administration warned that government employees would strike if workers’ demands for a 10% wage increase were not met → Read More

A budget of missed opportunities, says DA

Government bails out SOEs but fails to deliver meaningful tax exemptions, expanded zero-VAT basket or fuel levies cuts, say labours and opposition → Read More

DA’s Cilliers Brink tipped to be the next Tshwane mayor

Brink is said to have the backing of most multiparty coalition partners, with resistance from ActionSA → Read More

Tshwane to elect mayor ‘as soon as yesterday’

Metro continues to operate as it still has a city manager, speaker Murunwa Makwarela says → Read More