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South Africa reverses VAT increase that threatened ANC-DA coalition
Enoch Godongwana's decision came after the second-biggest party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), threatened to quit the government, warning a VAT hike would hurt the poor the most.Godongwana, a ...Published: 25 Apr 2025 at 07:42hrs | 452 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa sold out the black man's struggle
SACP general secretary Solly Mapaila has once again accused the ANC of selling out and associating itself with weak allies of the Government of National Unity (GNU).Mapaila, who has been vocal...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 08:56hrs | 558 | by Staff reporter
Cosatu slams Ramaphosa's 'sellout' GNU government
Long serving ANC alliance partner the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) in KwaZulu-Natal has broken ranks, saying the once-ruling party was teetering on the brink of total collapse due t...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 08:52hrs | 300 | by Staff reporter
100 days later, black unions reject the GNU
Despite the 100-day milestone since President Cyril Ramaphosa's Government of National Unity (GNU) was established, black trade unions, particularly those aligned with the Congress of South African Tr...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 18:01hrs | 3696 | by Staff reporter
Nehawu KZN structures to drop ANC in favour of MK Party
KwaZulu-Natal's Umlazi district has become the launchpad for a lobby by public servants belonging to trade union National Education, Health, and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) to dump the ANC in favour...Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 17:29hrs | 637 | by Staff reporter
ANC of Ramaphosa: Obliterating, political cleansing of left leaning socialists
South Africa is witnessing a significant shift in its political landscape after the African National Congress (ANC), under President Cyril Ramaphosa, lost its majority in Parliament. This development ...Published: 23 Jul 2024 at 07:18hrs | 246 | by Marshall Ndlela
MK Party forming trade unions and labour federation
President of labour federation Cosatu, Zingiswa Losi, on Wednesday said the African National Congress-aligned labour movements are suffering huge losses as the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) is forming ...Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 16:13hrs | 896 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans skeptical as Motsoaledi resumes role as health minister
Some Zimbabweans are concerned about Dr Aaron Motsoaledi's return as Minister of Health in South Africa, citing his previous harsh attitude toward migrants, notably Zimbabweans, accusing them of overw...Published: 08 Jul 2024 at 16:42hrs | 42 | by Staff reporter
'Not possible to give the DA deputy president post'
AS South Africans eagerly await the announcement of Cabinet, following President Cyril Ramaphosa's swearing in on Wednesday, media reports suggest that the Democratic Alliance is demanding the post of...Published: 24 Jun 2024 at 10:25hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
South Africans favour an ANC-MK Coalition, survey shows
The survey comes after the ANC suffered a defeat in the 2024 elections, gaining a mere 40% support, resulting it losing its grip on total power.The loss of votes has created a lot of debate on...Published: 11 Jun 2024 at 12:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cyril Ramaphosa's real surmame revealed
South African opposition leader Julius Malema has claimed that the real surname of South African President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa is Mennel. Malema was speaking during the #EFFNationalShutdo...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 20:22hrs | 62 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zwelinzima Vavi calls on all South Africans to join national shutdown on Wednesday
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) is calling on all South Africans to join their national shutdown on Wednesday.Thousands of workers affiliated with Saftu and Congress of So...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 20:18hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Maybe Zimbabweans are okay with their suffering!
Tune in to any international news channel, and one encounters citizens of various nations around the world taking a firm stand against their pain and suffering endured as a result of unbearable econom...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 21:04hrs | 13 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
SA taxi fares set for a big increase
According to reports, Santaco and the National Taxi Alliance, the country's biggest taxi associations, have lobbied for trade unions such as the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) and other civic gr...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa national shutdown on 10 June goes ahead
Reports have surfaced that a national shutdown is set for Friday 10 June following the hike in fuel prices set to increase taxi fares.A Whatsapp message forwarded many times claimed that the r...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 08:16hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa booed, abandons workers day celebrations
Cyril Ramaphosa had to leave Cosatu's Worker's Day rally in the North West in a police Nyala as aggrieved workers stormed the stage in the Royal Bafokeng Stadium on Sunday with cries of "he [Ramaphosa...Published: 01 May 2022 at 14:14hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
SA restaurant industry faces collapse
There are growing expectations that President Cyril Ramaphosa may announce, in his state of the nation this week, that jobs in some sectors of the economy will soon be reserved exclusively for Sou...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:12hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
2021 marks four wasted years under Cyril Ramaphosa
Concluding his tour of four African countries in Dakar, President Cyril Ramaphosa told reporters that challenges faced by his administration in 2021 "combined to create just a catastrophic year"....Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 14:16hrs | 15 | by Professor Sipho Seepe
Cosatu making attempts to negotiate for Zimbabwean migrants
THE Congress of South African Unions (Cosatu) has revealed plans to engage the government on behalf of Zimbabweans that are likely to be deported due to expiry of the Special Dispensation Permits (ZSP...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:37hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean migrants making it big in South Africa
WHEN he made the decision to leave the country and cross the border into South Africa several years ago, his family and his peers tried to dissuade him, telling him he was putting his life in danger u...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 13:07hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabweans, military talks will end disputed elections, looting'
A REPORT, recently released by the Democracy in Africa, has called for urgent civilian and military negotiations in Zimbabwe to avoid future disputed elections and the ongoing unrestrained plunder of ...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 19:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's piecemeal approach to Cabinet reshuffling lands former unionist as new Finance Minister
Unionists across the African continent and in particular the Acting President of NMWUZ - Mine Workers' Union of Zimbabwe Mr Kurebwa Javangwe Nomboka have hailed President Cyril Ramaphosa's recent Cabi...Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 19:33hrs | | by Maxwell Teedzai
Ramaphosa's grip on state security machinery targets 2022 re-election
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa's announcement of sweeping changes to the Cabinet last week may have appeared radical but did little to dispel the notion that he is paralysed by a commitment to protracted c...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 16:08hrs | 1 | by Cyril Madlala
South African media condemned for 'censorship' as KZN protesters burn trucks
Freedom of expression groups and opposition parties have condemned South African media's decision to stop reporting on protests that have erupted in KwaZulu Natal, claiming the move disregarded the ri...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 21:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in SA engage officials on exemption permits
THE Zimbabwe Community in South Africa organisation says it is in discussions with both governments on the future of Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders, which are set to expire at the end of this...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 18:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, SA border blockade fails again
Organisers of a two-day demonstration that sought to block commercial traffic from entering and leaving South Africa through Beitbridge Border Post were left eating the dust from the cargo trucks driv...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rest in Peace Isaac 'Bra Ike' Lesiba Maphoto. A tribute shared by ZAPU
EULOGY BY PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA AT THE FUNERAL OF COMRADE LESIBE ISAAC ‘IKE' MAPHOTOPOLOKWANE, LIMPOPO PROVINCE 21 JULY 2019Programme DirectorMembers of the Maphoto familyMin...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 19:54hrs | 1 | by CR17
South African top leader endorses Chamisa
The South African Federation of Trade Unions general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has given a thumbs up to MDC leader Nelson Chamisa for his ability to rally Zimbabweans around the change agenda....Published: 28 May 2019 at 09:34hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe Communist Party May day Statement 2019
Revolutionary Greetings to all Zimbabwean working people from the National Steering Committee of the ZCP. As Proletarian Internationalists we extend our revolutionary greetings to workers, communists ...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 14:07hrs | 2 | by ZCP
The disconnect in electoral democracy
Every four years the world is drawn to watch in awe as the United States chooses their next president, even to the point of fanatically following the bi-partisan primary election races, prominent of w...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Mnangagwa under fire
Top world labour unions yesterday came out guns blazing against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime over the arrest of International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) general-secretary for Afri...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 17:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa gets support from DA to attack Zimbabwe?
The events of the last weeks have been knee shacking and deeply depressing. The peaceful demonstrations in Zimbabwe were hijacked by the regime change financiers. The onslaught Zimbabwe received from ...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 12:26hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Cosatu's ShutDownBeitbridge demo flops, only 76 attends
A bid to block Zimbabwe and South Africa's border by the Confederation of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) yesterday hit a brick wall after their request to protest inside the border area was turne...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 07:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Anti-Mnangagwa demo in Beitbridge border
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) on Wednesday staged a protest at the Beitbridge border showing solidarity with the leaders and members of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions who ...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 11:30hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chiwenga must be deported back to Zimbabwe
DISGRUNTLED Zimbabweans living in South Africa yesterday ratcheted up pressure on President Cyril Ramaphosa's government to deport Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, who was reportedly admitted to a...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
SA Trade Union to shutdown Beitbridge border
The' Congress of South Africa Trade Unions (COSATU) will stage a solidarity march with the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions on Wednesday."The protest comes as Trade Unions in SouthAfric...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Protest kingpin remanded in custody
Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) president Peter Gift Mutasa yesterday appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court charged with attempting to subvert a constitutionally elected government or, in ...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa could use Davos to apply pressure on Mnangagwa
The Congress of South African Trade Unions’ international relations unit has demanded that government abandon its "tepid" approach to addressing recent events in Zimbabwe and use international platf...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 12:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
COSATU condemns abduction of ZCTU President
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is deeply concerned by the abduction of the leader of our sister federation ZCTU, our Comrade Peter Gift Mutasa and others, who were taken either by...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 09:44hrs | 2 | by Sizwe Pamla
Condemning Israel is not hate speech, SA Appeal Court finds
The South African Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) this week delivered a judgment that provided much needed clarity about the meaning of "hate speech" as prohibited in the Equality Act. Understanding wha...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 17:27hrs | 1 | by Wilmien Wicomb I GroundUp
Ramaphosa using ANC integrity commission to purge Zuma loyalists
The ANC is at odds about the status of its integrity commission rulings, with some members arguing that the structure is used to settle factional scores.The matter was among the dominant subje...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 15:19hrs | | by City Press
Ramaphosa's minimum wage 'legitimises poverty'
A South African trade union has accused the government of "legitimising poverty" after the country set its first-ever minimum wage.South Africa Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) said it is ou...Published: 31 May 2018 at 13:05hrs | 1 | by BBC
Ramaphosa sparks Cabinet panic
President Cyril Ramaphosa will have to show his mettle in the face of a tug-of-war over who will get the call-up and who will be benched as he compiles his first Cabinet.Ramaphosa put current ...Published: 19 Feb 2018 at 05:40hrs | | by Sapa
'Police wanted to arrest Grace Mugabe,' says Mbalula
South Africa's Police minister Fikile Mbalula has said his law enforcement agency were ready to arrest Zimbabwe First Lady Grace Mugabe when she assaulted model Gabriella Engels in August but backtrac...Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 12:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Communist Party solidarity message: NEHAWU 30th Anniversary
We bring to you revolutionary greetings from the membership and leadership of the Zimbabwe Communist Party and of the Zimbabwean workers both in South Africa and in Zimbabwe.We are honoured to...Published: 02 Oct 2017 at 07:14hrs | 15 | by Zimbabwe Communist Party
'FNB has been pandering to DA politics for some time'
COSATU calls for the reinstatement of four FNB employees dismissed for exercising their right to freedom of speech.The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) condemns the unfair dismi...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 18:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe sons back in Zimbabwe
President Robert Mugabe's two sons, Chatunga and Robert Junior, are back in Zimbabwe for good after sparking a diplomatic furore in neighbouring South Africa last week, the Daily News can report....Published: 24 Aug 2017 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cosatu wants Grace Mugabe banned in SA
First Lady Grace Mugabe could be banned from ever entering South Africa if that country's power trade union federation and opposition groups get their way in their bids to have the decision to grant h...Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
COSATU raps SA govt for granting Grace diplomatic immunity
The government's decision to grant Ms Grace Mugabe diplomatic immunity is disgraceful and a camouflaged surrender, South African labour organisation Congress of South African Trade Unions has said....Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 06:58hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zuma takes on white monopoly capital
Johannesburg - When president Jacob Zuma's term expires in 2019,many South Africans will remember him as the leader who risked his presidency by taking on white monopoly capital-the powerful apartheid...Published: 10 Jul 2017 at 11:25hrs | 3 | by Thabo Kunene
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