# The UDM is calling on municipalities to stop being a source of frustration to communities and start being centres of excellence and delivery. The UDM deputy president, Nqabayomzi Kwankwa, says too many municipalities are riddled with financial mismanagement, cadre deployment, and basic incompetence. He says potholes, uncollected waste, sewage spills and dry taps have become the norm for […]
# Die Nasionale Unie van Mynwerkers sê hy berei voor om in Mei met loononderhandelings by Sibanye Stillwater te begin. Die maatskappy het in November verlede jaar ʼn eenjaar-loonooreenkoms met vakbonde by sy goudbedrywighede bereik, wat ʼn verhoging van 5,5-persent insluit. Hierdie ooreenkoms verstryk op 30 Junie vanjaar. NUM sê die feit dat die mynbedryf, […]
# Die Withuis het Amazon se plan om die koste van president Donald Trump se tariewe op produkte te plaas wat die e-handelsreus verkoop, gekritiseer. Trump het ʼn tarief van 145-persent gehef op ingevoerde produkte uit China, waar baie produkte op Amazon.com vandaan kom. Amazon ontken betrokkenheid by die berig en sê die idee is […]
# Rugby: ʼn Onafhanklike paneel het ʼn wangedragbevinding teen die Westelike Provinsie Rugbyvoetbalunie se oudpresident, Zelt Marais, gehandhaaf. Die Suid-Afrikaanse Rugbyunie het Marais in 2024 vir 10 jaar geskors nadat hy op agt aanklagte van wangedrag weens verbreking van die SARU-gedragskode skuldig bevind is. Die paneel het bevind die straf wat die regsbeampte opgelê het, […]
# Adjunkpresident Paul Mashatile sê Suid-Afrika wil werkskepping, die bevordering van geslagsbeleid, en billike toegang tot geleenthede die middelpunt van die G20-dialoog maak. Hy het Dinsdag in Pretoria ʼn hoofrede gelewer by die T20 Afrika-hoëvlakbeleidsdialoog. Mashatile sê Afrika moet die voortslepende uitdagings van ekonomiese ontwikkeling, politieke onbestendigheid en swak regering aanspreek. Hy sê Afrika kan […]
# The National Union of Mineworkers says preparations are already underway to begin national wage negotiations with Sibanye Stillwater in May. In November last year, the company reached a one-year wage agreement with unions at its gold operations, which comprised increases of 5.5-percent. This agreement ends on June 30th this year. NUM says the fact […]
# The White House has criticised Amazon’s reported plan to display the cost of president Donald Trump’s tariffs on products the e-commerce giant sells. Trump has imposed a 145-percent tariff on imports from China, where many products listed on Amazon.com ship from. Amazon has moved to distance itself from the report, saying the idea had […]
# Rugby: An independent appeal panel has upheld a disciplinary sanction of misconduct against former Western Province Rugby Football Union president, Zelt Marais. The SA Rugby Union suspended Marais for ten years in 2024 after he was found guilty on eight charges of misconduct for breaching the SARU Code of Conduct. The panel found that the […]
# Deputy president Paul Mashatile says South Africa is committed to placing employment generation, advancing gender-responsive policies, and equitable access to opportunity at the centre of the G20 dialogue. He delivered a keynote address at the T20 Africa High-Level Policy Dialogue in Pretoria on Tuesday. Mashatile says there is a need for Africa to address […]
