Community health workers belong in the public sector!
Unions claim that the labour department is doing the health department’s bidding by proposing to remove community health workers from the public health bargaining council.
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Amadiba Crisis Committe on a roadshow to present an alternative route to the N2 Wild Coast Road
The Amadiba Crisis Committee are determined to fight against the coastal route of Sanral, citing the capture of the construction project by corporate interests and the environmental damage it will do.
Dilapidated schools impair teaching and learning in the Eastern Cape
According to the department of education in the Eastern Cape, the improvement of facilities at almost half of the schools in the province is delayed while about a fifth have no electricity.
Learners with spiritual calling ejected from schools
A calling to hear ancestral voices has got some learners suspended from school.
EFF, Saftu, PAC declare shutdown a success
There was no looting or any of the public violence that occupied media attention in the build-up to the shutdown.
Doctors march for jobs in the Eastern Cape
Doctors and their union accuse the government of turning a blind eye to the critical shortage of doctors.
SAFTU and COSATU march against high cost of living and austerity
The unity between the two labour federations was put to the test in mass marches in Cape Town, Pretoria and East London during the general strike on Wednesday.
Complaints about tavern foretold Enyobeni deaths
Police say that they are aware of complaints about the tavern made by members of the public before the tragedy.
Is Social Development in the EC concealing the numbers of children dying of hunger?
The South African Human Right Commission in the Eastern Cape hears of child malnutrition in the province.
Families of 21 Scenery Park teenagers await answers
In a hasty public relations exercise the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality fixed the roads to the Scenery Park sports fields where the president addressed the mourners.
No funds to re-employ EC Covid-19 healthcare workers
With the end of the national state of disaster, the disastrous state of healthcare in the Eastern Cape as elsewhere in South Africa, continues.
EC health workers demand re-employment
Healthcare workers came from across the province to take their demand for re-employment to the office of the Eastern Cape health MEC in Bhisho. The premier and the MEC were away in East London so the memorandum of demands will be in their in-trays on Monday.
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