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Cosatu: balancing South African workers' rights and xenophobia

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Cosatu: balancing South African workers' rights and xenophobia [Business Report] 01-06-2026


Hunger is economic violence inflicted daily on SA’s poor [Daily Maverick] 29-05-2026


/ Africa NUM condemns attacks on fellow African migrants [NUM] 28-05-2026


The workers who feed nine million school children - and earn just R2,300 a month [GroundUp] 27-05-2026


SAMWU raises alarm over governance failures, worker safety, and crumbling labour relations [COSATU] 27-05-2026



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Cosatu: balancing South African workers' rights and xenophobia 2026-06-01 [Business Report]

Nine thousand social workers are unemployed, and a million learners are in crisis 2026-05-31 [Daily Maverick]

Conference of the Left: Building a left movement for working-class and popular power 2026-05-31 [SACP]

Mpumalanga Labour Court reinstates 21 mine workers dismissed for protesting over unpaid overtime pay 2026-05-31 [IOL]

Hiked repo rate will leave its mark on workers' finances 2026-05-31 [Polity/UASA]

Repo rate hike sparks concern over household debt, inflation and economic growth 2026-05-30 [Business Report]

Gauteng NUM Women’s Structure launches 'Right to Learn Campaign' in Soweto, donating essential school supplies 2026-05-29 [NUM]

PSA calls for urgent intervention in National Health Laboratory Service debt crisis 2026-05-29 [Polity/PSA]

Hunger is economic violence inflicted daily on SA’s poor 2026-05-29 [Daily Maverick]

SAFTU warmly welcomes arrest of drug traffickers at Beitbridge border post 2026-05-29 [SAFTU]

North West SAFTU condemns brutal assassination of community activist Comrade Mokoena Letsie 2026-05-29 [SAFTU]

SAFTU condemns SARB’s disastrous decision to increase interest rates by 25 basis points 2026-05-29 [SAFTU]

Cosatu to participate in SACP's Conference of the Left 2026-05-29 [IOL]

North West Community leader killed in horror shooting 2026-05-29 [Daily Sun]

Cosatu warns interest rate hike would punish workers amid oil price surge 2026-05-29 [Sunday World]

Gauteng COSATU Johannesburg statement on 2026/27 City of Johannesburg budget speech 2026-05-28 [COSATU]

Africa NUM condemns attacks on fellow African migrants 2026-05-28 [NUM]

Gauteng NUM leadership conducts strategic site visit to Benoni’s Gold Plat plant following majority union milestone 2026-05-28 [NUM]

China NUM send condolences to families of China mineworkers who died last week Friday 2026-05-28 [NUM]

Mpumalanga Tragedy strikes mining community: nine miners and taxi driver killed in horrific crash 2026-05-28 [NUM]

SAMWU raises alarm over governance failures, worker safety, and crumbling labour relations 2026-05-27 [COSATU]

KwaZulu-Natal Unions raise alarm over ongoing teacher boycott at Umkhumbane Secondary 2026-05-27 [East Coast Radio]

KwaZulu-Natal Cameras in school: MEC promises to abide by court ruling 2026-05-27 [GroundUp]

Eastern Cape Strike looms in Nelson Mandela Bay — Samwu warns of governance breakdown 2026-05-27 [Daily Maverick]

Eastern Cape Samwu threatens action over dysfunctional metro 2026-05-27 [The Herald]

The workers who feed nine million school children - and earn just R2,300 a month 2026-05-27 [GroundUp]

SAFTU condemns Gold Reef City for bad faith negotiations and prolonging workers’ struggle 2026-05-27 [SAFTU]

SAFTU in support of call for Reserve Bank not to increase interest rates 2026-05-27 [SAFTU]

FEDUSA urges government to show greater resolve as fuel levy relief ends 2026-05-27 [FEDUSA]

FEDUSA notes crime decline but remains concerned it is still a crisis 2026-05-27 [FEDUSA]

Growing disconnect between workers and employment 2026-05-26 [The South African]

SAFTU strongly welcomes historic International Court of Justice ruling affirming the right to strike 2026-05-26 [SAFTU]

Eastern Cape Dana Spicer retrenchments spark strikes, economic alarm in the Bay 2026-05-26 [Nova News]

Gauteng MEC gives mayors marching orders while Samwu slams their performance 2026-05-26 [Sunday World]

Mpumalanga Nurses celebrated at provincial event in Secunda 2026-05-26 [Ridge Times]

Winning the war on crime: The first step to jobs, growth and a better life 2026-05-26 [Business Report]

South Africa COSATU statement on Africa day 2026-05-26 [COSATU]

Eastern Cape SAMWU condemns continued union bashing and victimisation of shop stewards at Amatola Water 2026-05-26 [COSATU]

COSATU statement on International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia and Pride Month 2026 2026-05-26 [COSATU]

COSATU urges Reserve Bank not to increase repo rate 2026-05-25 [COSATU]

COSATU applauds President Cyril Ramaphosa’s promulgation into effect of key provisions in the Companies’ Amendment Acts 2026-05-25 [COSATU]

Gauteng COSATU demands accountability following Public Protector findings on delayed Charlotte Maxeke hospital repairs 2026-05-25 [COSATU]

Stagnating formal employment, but growing informal work requires structural changes in responses – UASA 2026-05-23 [Engineering News]

‘Charity can never replace economic justice’: Fawu demands R3 000 vouchers for Shoprite workers 2026-05-23 [The Citizen]

FAWU calls for R3,000 food vouchers for Shoprite workers amid rising food prices 2026-05-23 [IOL]

Free State Education department defends financial clampdown on schools, citing governance breakdowns 2026-05-22 [Daily Maverick]

KwaZulu-Natal SAFTU supports Human Rights Commission's call for calm and condemns the violence in Durban 2026-05-22 [SAFTU]

South Africa From Compliance to Leverage 2026-05-22 [RE:Structure Lab]

Western Cape Legal battle looms over City of Cape Town's Procurement Act 2026-05-22 [Cape Argus]

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This month in labour history

6-06-1988 A general strike was declared by black unions and anti-apartheid groups. Up to 3 million took part in the stoppage, in protest at the 2-year-old state of emergency restrictions on the right to strike. They held out against police shootings. [more]

10-06-1918 African workers rallied in Johannesburg to protest the jailing of all 152 striking municipal workers. who had gone on strike for a shilling a day increase in pay. Radicals attempted to organise a general strike which was called off. [more]

26-06-1957 SACTU launches a "one pound a day" campaign and calls for a strike. 70 to 80% of workers in Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and Vereeniging observe it, achieving the first significant wage improvement since 1945. [more]