Launch of NUMSA and FAWU Campaign for Agrarian Transformation and Land Redistribution in South Africa (SA)

13 June 2013

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and the Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) held a bilateral meeting on 26 May 2013 in Johannesburg. Among numerous issues discussed at the bilateral was an agreement to launch a Campaign for Agrarian Transformation and Land Distribution in South Africa.

COSATU`s comments on the Presidential Review Committee`s Report on State Owned Entities

13 June 2013

On the 28th May 2013, the Minister in the Presidency, Comrade Collin Chabane, released a long-awaited report of the Presidential Review Committee (PRC) on State Owned Entities (SOEs).

SACTWU launches R25m Youth Development Programme

13 June 2013

The COSATU-affiliated Southern African Clothing & Textile Workers` Union (SACTWU) has set aside R25m for a youth employment development programme, as our contribution towards the implementation of the Youth Employment Accord signed on 18 April 2013.

COSATU condemns Kapsch profits

13 June 2013

The Congress of South African Trade Unions is appalled that Austrian e-tolling company, Kapsch TrafficCom, expects to rake in annual revenue of 50 million Euros (R664 million) every year, for the next eight years, from Gauteng`s e-tolling system.

Nurses and doctors hold hands with community in a march to Mankweng Hospital

12 June 2013

Nurses, under the banner of Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) and doctors from South African Medical Association (SAMA) held hands with community members in a march to Mankweng hospital outside Polokwane today together with Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), South African Council of Churches (SACC), and retired nurses in the province to launch the Positive Practice Environment (PPE) campaign in Limpopo as a way to voice their feelings about the challenges at the hospital as well as other facilities in the province.