# The South African National Christian Forum says government needs to be proactive to develop informal settlement into formal and serviced townships. Forum president Marothi Mashashane says they have raised a concern several times on how informal settlement dwellers are abandoned and declared to be not deserving of any basic services:
# FNB senior economist, Siphamandla Mkhwanazi says the amount of work currently under way is not enough to address South Africa’s deep infrastructure backlog while order books are consistent with only a lukewarm improvement going forward. Mkhwanazi says data from Statistics South Africa showed that the real value of construction works contracted by 3.4-percent year-on-year in the […]
# The Metal Mining and Allied Workers Union of South Africa has announced its official launch as a fully recognised and registered trade union. After a rigorous and challenging process, the Registrar of the Department of Employment and Labour has finally approved their application for registration. Spokesperson, Mogoshadi Maserumule says this is a significant milestone […]
# The Institute of Race Relations says there are two practical steps to reduce black economic empowerment procurement premiums, which Finance minister Encoh Godongwana can take now to avoid raising the value-added tax. These are to make BEE preference premiums transparent and reduce premiums in public procurement to zero-rand. The IRR’s, Gabriel Crouse, says waste […]
# The Congress of South African Trade Unions welcomes the slight uptick in employment registered in the fourth quarter of 2024. The total number of people employed in South Africa decreased by 91-thousand from December 2023 to December last year. According to the Quarterly Employment Statistics published by Statistics SA, full-time employment decreased by 26-thousand […]
# The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa says it supports the immediate nationalisation of auto manufacturing and smelting industries to save jobs. Specific industries within manufacturing, such as automotive and non-metallic minerals, have seen dramatic job losses in recent years. Giwusa president, Mametlwe Sebei, says for instance, the transport equipment sector alone reported […]
# Labour lawyer, Michael Bagraim, says government has failed to protect the country’s steel industry. ArcelorMittal South Africa is planning to wind down its long steel plants in Vereeniging, Gauteng, and Newcastle in KwaZulu-Natal, affecting over three-thousand jobs, but government is looking at funding options to save the plants. Bagraim says government has for years […]
# Tshwane University of Technology lecturer, Brent Swart’s vibrant new mural is a major hit. He was tasked with creating a mural to celebrate PUBG Mobile’s relationship with its African player base. PUBG Mobile is a free-to-play battle royale video game. Swart collaborated with four alumni students to design and paint the artwork, with the whole […]
# The City of Tshwane secured first place in the 2025 South African Local Government Association Pitch Deck Competition. The competition was born out of a need to find innovative solutions that would address the various challenges affecting local government. The metro’s spokesperson, Lindela Mashigo, says the solutions pitched by the Tshwane team revolved around […]
