NUMSA vows to fight General Motors to the bitter end
The unexpected announcement last week by General Motors South Africa that it is closing its Port Elizabeth-based car manufacturing plant was met with shock and dismay by both […]
Regions
Ex-miners march to Alexander Forbes
An apparent delay by the government and its private financial service provider in processing payments of retirement benefits for the country’s former mineworkers is causing […]
Construction company unfairly dismissed two Zimbabwean workers
Wilson Jona and Kudakwashe Watura, both Zimbabwean lost their jobs as labourers at a construction company in Paarl after they had asked for the overtime […]
The appalling state of hostels in Alexandra township
Alexandra Hostel dwellers and elsewhere in the City of Johannesburg are pinning their hopes on the new City’s administration led by the coalition of […]
A Khayelitsha cyclist appointed to be the transformation specialist for Cycling Board of SA
Bonga Ngqobane, 26, the founder of Bonga Cycle Academy in Khayelitsha, has finally accomplished his dream. He was appointed as South Africa Cycling Transformation and […]
Anti Zuma protest in Port Elizabeth
Thousands took to the streets of Port Elizabeth calling for President Zuma to step down
The Anti-Zuma protest in Cape Town
Cape Townians took to the street calling for President Zuma to step down following a cabinet reshuffle
Cosatu adds its voice to the SASSA debacle
The Congress of South African Trade Union, COSATU has called for the resignation of Bathabile Dlamini following the SASSA debacle.
Glebelands Solidarity Month 13 March – 13 April
Call for community support, solidarity, action and awareness
Social grants: Picketers want answers from SASSA as the April deadline looms
Scores of social grant beneficiaries left the Portlands Indoor Sport and Recreational Centre in Portlands, Mitchells Plain angry and disappointed having not received the correct grant amount owed to them.
Land occupiers and special school at odds over land
A school in the Eastern Cape that provides special education to intellectually disabled children is facing a myriad of challenges. The school has an acute shortage of teachers, overcrowding and a critical shortage of special teaching guides.
Luthando Luvuyo Special School in Port Elizabeth. It has been plagued by staff shortages and overcrowding in its classes. The school is also in need of more classrooms. To compound the school’s predicament, next to it is Sharpeville informal settlement.
School children face daily deadly crossing
The Old Lansdowne road in Philippi has extremely heavy traffic, which causes hundreds of accidents involving cyclists, pedestrians and cars every year. The most pedestrians that are in danger are school children because they travel to and from school almost 200 times per year.
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