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Cosatu has put a debate on the national minimum wage on hold at its annual congress being held in Johannesburg.
"Power hungry reject" Julius Malema's attempts to destabilise the labour movement are repulsive, according to police trade union Popcru.
Expelled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema has lashed out at President Jacob Zuma and says the commission of inquiry into the Marikana shootings is politically motivated.
Women still lag in global economics and politics.
An academic says the ANC Youth League can raise nationalisation as a solution to the jobs crisis until leaders come up with workable alternatives.
The proposed national health insurance might turn out to be unconstitutional, the Freedom Front Plus says.
The ANC’s labour alliance partner Cosatu has drawn a line in the sand about Government corruption. It’s insisting President Jacob Zuma deals with graft in a more “consistent and brutal” manner if he wants the labour federation’s support to run for a second presidential term.
Newspaper headlines such as “More people want to leave the country because of Julius” and “SA’s BRICS partners invest elsewhere in Africa” make Trader Vic – a self-acknowledged scavenger trader – very excited about the new opportunities the media’s fear of Julius Malema is going to create for this unsavoury species of trader over the next year or two.
The Gauteng provincial finance department will use its R1.54bn budget to improve the performance of municipalities and facilitate job creation, MEC Mandla Nkomfe says.
President Jacob Zuma has been put in an unexpectedly tight political spot by a piece of legislation Parliament has passed in a bid to stamp out the kind of political interference paralysing – if not corrupting – municipal government in South Africa.
South Africa has received the worst possible rating on several governance aspects in an independent peer review report, with President Jacob Zuma and Parliament coming under fire.
The movement leading SA is in crisis, says President Jacob Zuma, bemoaning ill-discipline, premature introduction of key debates and the "money issue".
Even if they’re all politically loaded, setting out the social and economic challenges facing South Africa – as the National Planning Commission (NPC) has done – is the easy part.
As wages increase in China and other parts of Asia, Africa’s leaders hope multinational manufacturing companies will start looking to move industrial plant to this continent to take advantage of its resources – both natural and human.
Kader Asmal traces the ANCYL's progress from buffoonery to tragicomedy.
