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.
Due to desperation, the Jagersfontein community is now divided with each side accusing the other of collaborating with the mine bosses and the police they accuse of being in the bosses’ pockets.
The author argues that government is failing to respond to the lived reality of communities by increasing the amount of the ‘Covid’ grant given to the poorest and making it more accessible.
The retail company has been attacking members of the union, suspending and dismissing hundreds of workers for participating in pickets and the strike.
A calling to hear ancestral voices has got some learners suspended from school.
According to the municipality the current average level in the five dams that supply the metro is 13,27%.
Union lambasts Walmart’s union bashing and “bully-boy” tactics.
To mark Human Rights Day and to stand in solidarity with the global climate movement, the marchers called for system change.
There was no looting or any of the public violence that occupied media attention in the build-up to the shutdown.
Saftu’s support for an action led by the EFF threatens to sow division within the federation say critics.
The union has hailed the strike as a success for forcing the government back into the bargaining council and securing gains for their members before this year’s wage negotiations even begin.
Nehawu says they have complied with the court order but are continuing with the strike with the South African Policing Union (Sapu) set to join the strike later this week.
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