solidarity

  1. Luis

    Progress made on R3.2 billion Afrikaans private university campus

    Progress made on R3.2 billion Afrikaans private university campus New photos of construction activity at Solidarity's R3.2-billion Akademia private university campus in Pretoria East reveal substantial progress since the project officially kicked off in January 2026. Akademia recently also...
    • Luis
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    • afrikaans private university akademia pretoria private education private universities solidarity
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  3. Hanno Labuschagne

    Solidarity defends Eskom salaries

    Solidarity defends Eskom salaries Solidarity secretary-general Gideon Du Plessis said most Eskom workers were earning well below the average annual cost per employee of R1.027 million. In a recent opinion piece in Rapport, Du Plessis said the average remuneration of the power utility's...
  4. Hanno Labuschagne

    Akademia's R3.2-billion campus breaks ground

    Akademia's R3.2-billion campus breaks ground Solidarity's private Afrikaans university, Akademia, and real estate developer Kanton have broken ground on a new R3.2-billion residential full-time campus on the outskirts of Pretoria East. A sod-turning ceremony on Friday at the Mooiplaats site on...
  5. Jan

    Eskom, unions agree to "injury time" for wage negotiations

    Eskom unions reject 5.25% salary increase Eskom has assured that its three recognized trade unions have committed to a fourth round of wage negotiations in June after they couldn’t reach an agreement this week. Last year, Eskom workers went on an unprotected strike, with union leaders...
    • Jan
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    • eskom load-shedding national union of metalworkers (numsa) national union of mineworkers (num) solidarity
    • Replies: 27
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  6. Jan

    Connie Mulder accuses Gwede Mantashe of blocking energy transition over vested coal interests

    Gwede Mantashe has vested coal interests, says Connie Mulder Solidarity Research Institute head Connie Mulder says Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe is delaying the energy transition because of vested interests and a Marxist ideology. Mulder made the comments during a speech...
  7. Jan

    Stage 4 until further notice - 18 February 2023

    Eskom increases load-shedding until further notice Eskom has announced stage 4 load-shedding until further notice. This is due to the breakdowns of a generating unit each at Koeberg, Medupi, Kriel, Arnot and Lethabo power stations.
    • Jan
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    • andré de ruyter arnot power station cyril ramaphosa eskom gwede mantashe koeberg power station kriel power station lethabo power station load-shedding medupi power station organisation undoing tax abuse (outa) solidarity
    • Replies: 48
    • Forum: Eskom and Electricity: Load Shedding
  8. Jan

    Solidarity posts screenshots from Eskom's plans to get rid of 500 white males

    Here is proof Eskom wants to get rid of 500 white staff — Solidarity Trade union Solidarity has provided screenshots from Eskom’s proposed Employment Equity Plan for 2023–2025 to prove the power utility has plans to get rid of 500 white male workers in the next two years. This comes after...
  9. Jan

    No plans or decision to retrench 500 white staff: Eskom

    Eskom promises it has no plans to retrench 500 white maintenance workers There is no plan or desire to get rid of 500 white male employees at Eskom, the state-owned power utility has said. “Eskom wishes to reassure the public that there are neither plans nor decision to retrench any employees...
  10. Jan

    Retrenching white males at Eskom more important than fixing load-shedding - Solidarity

    Eskom wants to retrench 500 white maintenance workers Solidarity says Eskom wants to get rid of 500 white male employees — most of which do maintenance work — in the next two years. The trade union has revealed this forms part of the utility's latest Employment Equity (EE) Plan for 2023 to 2025.
    • Jan
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    • black economic empowerment (bee) dirk hermann eskom load-shedding solidarity
    • Replies: 184
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  11. Jan

    Solidarity takes Nersa to court over private power applications and feed-in tariffs

    Legal battle over private power in South Africa The Solidarity Movement has launched a legal challenge against the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa), demanding it removes all bottlenecks in the way of private energy suppliers. The organisation believes that when it comes to...
    • Jan
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    • cyril ramaphosa department of public enterprises (dpe) dirk hermann load-shedding national energy regulator of south africa (nersa) solidarity
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  12. Jan

    Sol-Tech launches first IT qualifications

    Private Afrikaans college launches IT qualifications The Solidarity-owned Sol-Tech will start offering its first Information Technology (IT) qualifications from April 2023. The private Afrikaans technical college was launched in 2007 and has gradually expanded its courses in several technical...
    • Jan
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    • akademia comptia it jobs paul van deventer sol-tech solidarity
    • Replies: 42
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  13. Hanno Labuschagne

    More legal battles over load-shedding looming

    More legal battles over load-shedding looming Several organisations in South Africa are threatening to take Eskom to court over the impact of frequent load-shedding and the utility's failure to provide a comprehensive plan to address the rotational power cuts. That is according to a report...
  14. Jan

    Corruption, greed, and race-based procurement and HR policies destroyed Eskom

    Why Eskom is collapsing Solidarity CEO Dirk Hermann said there are two main reasons for Eskom’s collapse – corruption and race-based policies. In 2022, South Africans endured the worst load-shedding the country has ever seen. Hours of power outages per day are now commonplace.
    • Jan
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    • dirk hermann eskom load-shedding mteto nyati rhulani mathebula solidarity
    • Replies: 25
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  15. Jan

    Eskom reveals it lost 691 engineers, technicians, and artisans since 2019

    Eskom bleeding engineers and technicians Hundreds of skilled artisans, technicians, and engineers are walking away from South Africa's state-owned companies, including Eskom, and they aren't hiring enough qualified workers to compensate for the losses. This is according to responses to...
  16. Jan

    One Internet-less computer for every four detectives - SRI report reveals disastrous state of police stations

    One Internet-less computer for every four detectives and pirated software — disastrous state of police stations The detective services of the South African Police Service (Saps) are facing a disaster because it is left without little to no resources or support to conduct investigations, a new...
    • Jan
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    • renate barnard solidarity solidarity research institute south african police service (saps)
    • Replies: 42
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  17. Jan

    Eskom launches online tool for "crowdsourcing" engineers

    Eskom launches online database for skilled experts who can help fight load-shedding Eskom officially launched a skills crowdsourcing platform on its website on Tuesday, calling on qualified and experienced power generation individuals to make themselves available to help rebuild the...
    • Jan
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    • elsie pule eskom jan oberholzer load-shedding pravin gordhan solidarity
    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  18. Jan

    Lawyer: Post Office directors could be held personally, criminally liable

    Post Office directors could face criminal charges The South African Post Office has failed to pay over workers’ pension fund, medical aid, and tax contributions despite deducting them from their salaries — which is a criminal offence in South Africa. This is according to Koos Benadie, director...
    • Jan
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    • barnard incorporated attorneys communication workers union (cwu) koos benadie solidarity south african post office (sapo)
    • Replies: 21
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  19. Jan

    Eskom insiders confirm information about the power utility's collapse

    Insiders reveal explosive information about Eskom's collapse Eskom insiders have revealed that politics, poorly skilled staff, a lack of training, affirmative action, poor budgeting, and corruption are the real reasons for the collapse at Eskom. explosive In 2022, South Africans endured the...
  20. Jan

    Post Office warns employees to take out their own medical aid as Medipos bill looms

    Post Office warns workers to get own medical cover after failing to pay R700 million Thousands of South African Post Office workers could be without medical aid cover from next month after the entity repeatedly failed to pay employee medical scheme contributions to Medipos. MyBroadband has...
    • Jan
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    • anton van der bijl medical aid medipos solidarity south african post office (sapo)
    • Replies: 19
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
  21. Jan

    Post Office coughs up R3 million after union drags it to court for not paying medical, pension, tax

    Post Office coughs up R3 million with staff on brink of losing medical aid The South African Post Office (Sapo) has paid over R3 million in overdue contributions to the Medipos medical scheme on behalf of employees who are members of Solidarity. The payment follows the trade union taking Sapo...
    • Jan
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    • anton van der bijl medipos solidarity south african post office (sapo)
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Broadband and IT News
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