# The EFF says Statistics South Africa’s latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey is a clear indictment of government’s current economic policy direction and the evident need for new leadership. South Africa’s official unemployment rate rose in the second quarter of this year to 33.6-percent, an increase of 0.9 percentage point from 32.7-percent in the first quarter […]
# The National Union of Mineworkers’ national executive committee has decided to legally challenge Eskom’s restructuring, saying it is willing to take the matter as far as the Constitutional Court. Last month, president Cyril Ramaphosa backed a plan for the establishment of an independent transmission system operator, ending a century-old monopoly by Eskom, and bringing […]
# Landwye Shanela Twee-operasies het die naweek gelei tot die inhegtenisneming van 20-duisend-211 verdagtes, insluitend 275 vermeende seksoortreders. Neëntig persone is in verskillende dele van die land weens verkragting aangekeer. Die polisiewoordvoerder, Amanda van Wyk, sê nakomingsinspeksies by sakeondernemings en aktiwiteite wat met onwettige optrede verband hou, is ook uitgevoer en 484 ongelisensieerde drank-verkooppunte is […]
# Nationwide high-density Shanela Two operations resulted in the arrest of 20-thousand-211 arrests, including 275 alleged sexual offenders, this past week. Among those arrested were 90 people wanted for rape, who were traced and apprehended in different parts of the country. Police spokesperson Amanda van Wyk says compliance inspections aimed at businesses and activities linked […]
# Die vakverbond SAFTU sê werkloosheid vernietig mense se potensiaal, vererger armoede en veroorsaak maatskaplike krisisse. Die werkloosheidskoers het in die tweede kwartaal tot 33,6-persent gestyg teenoor 32,7-persent in die eerste kwartaal. Volgens die kwartaallikse arbeidsmagopname het die getal werklose mense met 345-duisend toegeneem tot 8,5-miljoen. Asive Dyani van SAFTU sê die land se ekonomiese […]
# Die ANC-ringkop en voormalige minister Naledi Pandor is bekommerd oor die nuwe private, eksklusiewe Afrikaanse Akademia-universiteit wat in Pretoria gebou word. Die nuwe kampus word ontwikkel deur ‘n vennootskap tussen Solidariteit en Kanton, teen ‘n verwagte koste van meer as drie-miljard-rand. Die universiteit sal voorsiening maak vir vyfduisend voltydse voorgraadse studente en eenduisend-500 nagraadse […]
# Union federation SAFTU says mass unemployment destroys human potential, deepens poverty, and drives social crises. The unemployment rate rose to 33.6-percent in the second quarter, from 32.7-percent in the first. According to the latest quarterly labour force survey, there was an increase of 345-thousand unemployed persons to 8.5-million. SAFTU’s Asive Dyani says the country’s […]
# ANC stalwart and former minister Naledi Pandor has expressed concern about the new private Afrikaans-only Akademia university campus being built in Pretoria. The new campus is being developed through a partnership between Solidarity and Kanton, with the total development cost expected to exceed three-billion-rand. It will cater for five-thousand full-time undergraduate students and one-thousand-500 […]
# Cosatu sê moedige en bepalende optrede is nodig om die land se werkloosheidskrisis te takel. Suid-Afrika se amptelike werkloosheidsyfer het met 0,9-persent gestyg van 32,7-persent in die eerste kwartaal vanjaar tot 33,6-persent in die tweede kwartaal. Cosatu-woordvoerder Matthew Parks sê die omvang van die krisis vereis ʼn aggressiewe stimuluspakket om die ekonomie aan die gang […]
