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SADTU ongratulates the NSC class of 2025 2026-01-13 [SADTU]

Education Department faces challenges as schools prepare to reopen in disadvantaged areas 2026-01-07 [IOL]

Cosatu urges Education Department to accept court ruling reinstating Wesley Neumann as principal 2026-01-06 [IOL]

SAPU backs court’s decision to deny bail to Anti-Gang Unit members 2025-12-23 [Eyewitness News]

Anatomy of a hospital: Groote Schuur in a time of budget and staffing cuts 2025-11-26 [Mail & Guardian]

COSATU mourns the death of Ambassador Franklin Sonn 2025-11-21 [COSATU]

'I felt humiliated': officer resigns after 'shameful' period incident on duty 2025-11-20 [The Weekend Argus]

Workers shut down Cape Town construction project over unpaid wages 2025-11-12 [GroundUp]

SACP and NUM picket over surge of violent crime 2025-11-07 [Eyewitness News]

SADTU outraged by incident of bullying at Milnerton High School 2025-10-22 [SADTU]

Samwu concerned by crimes against waste management staff 2025-10-12 [Eyewitness News]

Amid concerns over teacher safety,NAPTOSA calls on SAPS to increase visibility in high-risk areas 2025-10-07 [Eyewitness News]

COSATU GS Solly Phetoe's remarks: to COSATU 40th anniversary build-up event 2025-09-30 [COSATU]

COSATU condemns abrupt closure of taxi routes, calls for urgent stakeholder engagement 2025-09-16 [COSATU ]

SAPU calls for better crime-fighting strategies in province 2025-09-12 [Eyewitness News]

NUM secures reinstatement of 23 members in landmark labour court ruling 2025-09-11 [NUM]

COSATU condemns City of Cape Town’s heartless cutting of Dial-A-Ride Service for the blind and people with other disabilities 2025-08-25 [COSATU]

2000 workers at Lucky Star down tools to press against unilateral workplace changes at Oceana 2025-08-21 [IOL]

SADTU media statement on post provisioning for 2026 2025-08-12 [SADTU]

Burglary and vandalism cost schools R1 million during holidays 2025-08-05 [Cape Argus]

Leadership crisis in police intelligence threatens crime-fighting efforts 2025-08-03 [IOL]

COSATU denounces Golden Arrow Bus Services’ 4% fare increase and views it as an attack on workers and the poor 2025-07-31 [COSATU]

Police officers demand action against salary 'extortion' 2025-07-17 [Cape Argus]

NUM region to march against Black Mountain's exploitative outsourcing and looming retrenchments 2025-07-16 [NUM]

Unlawful deductions leave police officers with only R28 in their bank accounts 2025-06-18 [Cape Argus]

From poor farmworker to lifeline for vulnerable residents — an activist’s tireless mission 2025-06-13 [Daily Maverick]

NAPTOSA says report on assaults on teachers'may be the tip of the iceberg' 2025-06-05 [Eyewitness News]

E-hailing drivers demand action over frozen licence approvals while impoundment fees soar 2025-06-05 [Daily Maverick]

Paramedics protest in Mfuleni, following attacks 2025-06-03 [GroundUp]

NUMSA members march to Knysna Municipality 2025-05-20 [Knysna-Plett Herald]

Women farm workers march for better labour inspections 2025-05-15 [GroundUp]

Court interpreters in on strike 2025-05-10 [Elitsha]

Investigations underway into separate murders of 2 off-duty police 2025-05-06 [Eyewitness News]

POPCRU reiterates call for additional officials in province's prisons 2025-05-04 [Eyewitness News]

Bid to avert strike on W Cape farms 2025-05-03 [IOL]

COSATU welcomes High Court agreement setting aside VAT hike 2025-04-29 [COSATU]

Motlatsi Tsubane uncontested in his re-election as WC COSATU chair 2025-03-17 [SABC]

Cosatu says teacher cuts will compromise education 2025-02-27 [IOL]

Shocking! Paramedic hijacked and 'raped' 2025-02-23 [Daily Sun]

Cosatu calls for strike over teacher post cuts 2025-02-19 [Cape Argus]

NEHAWU supports genuine struggle by University of Cape students 2025-02-19 [COSATU]

Cosatu to strike, calls on workers to join stay away over cut to Education Department cut to teaching posts 2025-02-17 [IOL]

SADTU demands action following brutal killing of school principal 2025-01-24 [Cape Argus]

NAPTOSA concerned about reports of overcrowding at some schools 2025-01-24 [Eyewitness News]

SADTU considering own probe into reports that some wealthy schools were exempt from teacher cuts 2025-01-23 [Eyewitness News]

COSATU President Message of Support at the Labour Activation Prigramme in Khayelitsha 2025-01-10 [COSATU]

Concerns poor areas will be hardest-hit by teacher job cuts 2025-01-03 [Eyewitness News]

NAPTOSA laments loss of 2,407 teaching jobs 2025-01-03 [Eyewitness News]

R800m: Still no place for teachers 2024-11-28 [Cape Times]

PSA calls for urgent intervention following food poisoning of 28 learners 2024-11-16 [Polity/PSA]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

8-01-1912 The African National Congress is founded in Bloemfontein [more]

9-01-1973 A strike wave begins in Durban when 2000 black brickworkers walk off the job and win a doubling of their wages [more]

10-01-1973 100,000 mainly Black African workers at the Coronation Brick & Tile factory in Durban walked off the job and succeeded in doubling wages and making progress towards racially mixed trade unions. [more]

11-01-1973 Strike at tea packaging factory, TW Becket & Co. Despite police intervention and threats of dismissal, 100 out of 150 Black employees continue to strike. On January 25, they obtained the requested raise and reinstatement. [more]

23-01-1982 Formula1 Grand Prix drivers went on strike and barricaded themselves in doors in protest against new "super licence" conditions. They were fined but they won and the new licences were withdrawn. [more]