Vodacom Group is planning to cut jobs at home in South Africa, its biggest market, to help reduce costs.
Africa’s largest wireless company by market value expects to cut about 80 jobs, the Johannesburg-based Vodacom said in response to queries on Monday. The firm employs about 5 400 people and...
Big Cosatu and Saftu strikes planned
South Africa’s biggest labour union federation will stage a national strike on 24 August to protest against the rising cost of fuel and food and continuing power cuts.
The planned work stoppage will also represent “a response by the workers to the ongoing...
Cosatu in talks with government regarding cutting Eskom debt
The Congress of South African Trade Unions, the country’s biggest labour federation, said significant progress was made on Wednesday in its talks with government and business over its proposed plan to cut Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd.’s...
The mother of all marches against Zuma – National shutdown coming
Cosatu and the SA Communist Party have promised to take to the streets against President Jacob Zuma.
Mixed reaction to e-toll ruling
The Supreme Court’s dismissal of Outa’s challenge against e-tolls was welcomed by the transport department, but Cosatu vowed to continue the fight.
R664-million overseas e-toll bill shocks and appals
Cosatu is appalled that an Austrian e-tolling company expects to make about R664 million a year from the Gauteng e-tolling system, the trade union federation said on Thursday.
Ongoing protests across the country are a ticking bomb about to explode, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said on Thursday.
"Nineteen years later in a democracy we are becoming [the] protest headquarters of the world; we call that a ticking bomb about to explode," he told delegates at...
Cosatu general-secretary Zwelinzima Vavi will continue to serve in his position, the trade union federation said on Wednesday.
"There is no question that can arise about any of the leaders here," Congress of SA Trade Unions president Sidumo Dlamini told reporters in Johannesburg.
"They...
E-toll protest cancelled
A group of protesters who had gathered outside Cosatu headquarters on Friday morning dispersed after the march against e-tolls was cancelled.
Cosatu e-toll fight gets wide support
Cosatu will be joined by at least 10 civil society bodies and some religious leaders in a series of protests against the e-tolling of Gauteng highways
Cosatu has vowed to take to Gauteng's highways later this month to protest against e-tolling and labour brokers.
The union federation had held discussions with both the Gauteng and national government in an attempt to persuade them to ban labour brokers and scrap e-tolls, Congress of SA Trade...
The Democratic Alliance has rejected claims that the party receives funding from the Israeli "lobby".
"The DA has never declared anywhere that it received any money [from the lobby]," spokesman Mmusi Maimane said.
He was responding to Congress of SA Trade Unions Western Cape secretary Tony...
Workers needed to be wary of vigilante trade unions and the DA's attempts to rebrand itself, Deputy Public Works Minister Jeremy Cronin said on Wednesday.
He said the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) was a vigilante union that had been formed by ill-disciplined former...
Three Jane Furse shop workers accused of assaulting a suspected shoplifter were granted bail of R2000 each by the Nebo Magistrate's Court, in Limpopo, on Monday.
Gladys Maphanga, Refilwe Mzimba, and Thabanga Makuwa were arrested last week after allegedly assaulting Esther Mankge, 49, accusing...
Cosatu on Thursday rejected the DA's claims that the ANC was not supporting moves to oppose tolling in the Western Cape.
"The position of the ANC in [the Cape Town] council was that we wanted further negotiations on the toll road issues, not running to court with wasting of millions of rands...
South Africans need to get involved in the affairs of the country, but without resorting to violence and looting, deputy public service and administration minister Ayanda Dlodlo said on Wednesday.
Speaking in Durban, Dlodlo said that in recent months the country's image had taken a knock...