Brief

Social Justice Coalition battling to stay afloat

No money for staff as funders suspend payments during investigation into fraud by former manager Xolani Klaas

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Brief | 15 March 2023

Dismissed immigrant lecturers withdraw Labour Court case

Port Elizabeth TVET College agrees not to retrench them

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Brief | 14 March 2023

School transport fraud accused in court

17 suspects accused of financial mismanagement at Atlantis Secondary School dating back to 2007

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Brief | 13 March 2023

Pregnant learners can only attend school if accompanied by a parent

Limpopo and Gauteng basic education departments contradict each other on pregnant learner policy

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Brief | 13 March 2023

R6-million spent on water project but no diesel to run the pump

Taps have never had water in Mnyamaneni village, Eastern Cape

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Brief | 10 March 2023

Vavi rubbishes Jim’s recall manoeuvre

“No right to recall” says Vavi, who has never been a NUMSA member

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Brief | 9 March 2023

Learners refuse to go to school where there is no water

Learners protest after municipality cuts off Fort Beaufort school’s water for three months

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Brief | 8 March 2023

Irvin Jim moves to push Zwelinzima Vavi out of SAFTU

Vavi has brought NUMSA “into disrepute”, according to letter

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Brief | 8 March 2023

Clean newly formed settlements, demand shack dwellers

Only 16 of the 36 new occupations established following the outbreak of Covid have been recognised, says Khayelitsha subcouncil chairman

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Brief | 6 March 2023

Court declares eviction of Nigel RDP occupiers unlawful

The occupiers demand alternative accommodation be provided

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Brief | 3 March 2023

Striking guards block office entrance, trapping government workers for hours

The guards are demanding their bonuses be paid

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Brief | 3 March 2023

School amends policy that excluded pregnant learners

We previously reported that the school in Mamelodi required pregnant learners to stay home until they gave birth

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Brief | 3 March 2023

Taxis interdicted from interfering with school transport in Khayelitsha

“The court has sent a strong message to the minibus taxi mafia,” says education MEC

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Brief | 2 March 2023

Women march through Dunoon against gender-based violence

“Men who are not embarrassed and have sexual intercourse with our children must leave Dunoon”

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Brief | 28 February 2023

“R350 is an insult. It is even less than the lunch of a minister’s son a day”

Activist groups demand Basic Income Grant of R1,500 at Kariega protest

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Brief | 23 February 2023