Here’s a story a bit outside our patch, but interesting nonetheless: A Free State educational official who has done no work for the past seven years has written to President Jacob Zuma to help stop her “forced” idling, the Volksblad newspaper reported on Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »

Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi’s salary has doubled this year to R500,000 a year, a newspaper reported.

“My salary doubled because we were losing all the policy capacity in the federation,” said Vavi. Read the rest of this entry »

Students protesting the a fee increase at Walter Sisulu University has disrupted classes at WSU campuses in East London on Friday morning, reported DispatchOnline’s Thando Gqamane. Read the rest of this entry »

Bodies needing postmortems are lying untouched in government morgues after workers embarked on a “go-slow” in protest against the provincial Health Department, writes Bongani Fuzile. Read the rest of this entry »

Sex workers may soon have the right to unionise, demand minimum wage and a safe working environment, should Cosatu have their way, writes Xolisa Mgwatyu. Read the rest of this entry »

Thousands of SA Revenue Services (Sars) employees downed tools on Monday demanding better pay, a union official said. Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s an interesting story on the front page of the Dispatch on Monday morning: A leading academic has ripped into the Eastern Cape’s teachers’ union  and blamed it for the province’s education shambles, writes Sino Majangaza. Read the rest of this entry »

The 21 municipal strikers who were arrested in Port Alfred for public violence last week were ordered to “go out and clean the town” before being released on R500 bail each on Monday. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s a bit off our patch, but here’s a little story that would be a hoot if it wasn’t so outrageous:  A senior police superintendent is living in his office, washing himself in the station’s kitchen and holding staff meetings in his pyjamas, the Beeld newspaper reported. Read the rest of this entry »

The five-day strike by South Africa’s municipal workers is over, the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) and  the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union (Imatu) said on Friday. Read the rest of this entry »