JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's civil servants' union has called a nationwide strike for higher wages, with protests getting off to a slow start. The call from union leaders came...
Unions representing South African state workers are expected to announce on Monday whether they will accept a government wage offer they previously rejected and end a strike by 1.3 million employees. Earlier on Sunday unions had said they would make an announcement...
Johannesburg - South African striking public servants staged another demonstration Thursday but their reduced numbers revealed divisions over whether to press ahead with their 16-day-old strike. Only a few hundred workers assembled for the march in central Johannesburg,...
Johannesburg - Hope was building in South Africa Wednesday for an end to a two-week-old public sector strike as unions representing over 1 million public servants canvassed their members on a new pay deal and called off a secondary strike. The South African Democratic...
* Major union puts one-day strike on hold * Decision on new offer to come later on Wednesday * Separate labour actions hits petrol stations, garages (Adds details, analyst comment) By Jon Herskovitz JOHANNESBURG, Sept 1 (Reuters) - South Africa's largest union on...
JOHANNESBURG – A strike at a Rio Tinto-BHP Billiton titanium joint venture in South Africa shut down the operations, while a wage strike at Exxaro entered its second week with no talks in sight, a union said. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) spokesman Lesiba...
Deaf, perhaps, and mum, definitely, in response to the cries of his striking populace, President Jacob Zuma led his court and comrades in a solemn reunion at Saint George's cathedral in Cape Town yesterday for the funeral of anti-apartheid hero Joe Matthews. Two days...
BY NANGAYI GUYSON IN KAMPALA UGANDA E. AFRICATrade unions in south Africa have condemned a court injunction obtained by the government prohibiting public sector workers from continuing a national strike. A spokesman for the Cosatu trade union federation...
South Africa's trade unions have condemned a court injunction obtained by the government prohibiting public sector workers from continuing a national strike. A spokesman for the Cosatu trade union federation told the BBC the move was designed to "intimidate" strikers....
Some one million South African civil servants are continuing their indefinite strike for a sixth day despite a court injunction banning unions from closing emergency services. Police...
* New govt wage offer unlikely to come on Friday Submit your comment Unions representing striking South African civil servants plan talks with the government on Friday as investors worry about the damage of a prolonged walk-out on Africa's largest economy....