A divided Numsa goes ahead with the congress
The Numsa congress, delayed by a court interdict, has started amid deep divisions in the union.
Khayelitsha community patrollers call for more resources
Members of the Khayelitsha Neighbourhood Watch used the imbizo to call for more support and resources to be allocated to them.
Zibonele management defend their mishandling of broadcast licence
Radio Zibonele obeyed the instruction to switch off on Wednesday but its listeners are sure to feel unfairly punished as well.
Killings shock Alexandra township
Police Minister Bheki Cele promised the Alexandra community action against criminals and “undocumented foreign nationals”.
Icasa unplugs Cape Town’s ‘number one’ community radio station
One of the country’s longest-standing community radios, Zibonele FM in Khayelitsha, faces closure as Icasa says they did not submit their licence renewal application on time.
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.
Khayelitsha residents call for better services to fight crime
Residents of Khayelitsha made a raft of recommendations to various spheres of government to fight crime in the township.
Workers uncertain about Komati power station switch-off and the just transition
The Komati power station is meant to make a complete switch-off by the end of September this year but workers say that they have not been consulted and are not sure what is going to happen to them.
Proposed labour migration policy slammed as xenophobic
SERI, Lawyers for Human Rights and the African Centre for Migration and Society have come out against the proposed National Labour Migration Policy.
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.
Fishers urged to form alliances with mining affected communities
Small-scale fishers and coastal communities participated in the Alternative Mining Indaba where they shared their experiences of corporate greed with communities affected by mining.
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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