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PTI
South Africa to Nominate Cuban Doctors for Nobel Peace Prize for Helping Fight COVID-19
02 Feb 2021
“This small island nation has demonstrated solidarity with the hardest-hit countries and sent over 3,700 Cubans throughout the world to assist in the COVID-19 fight”, President Cyril Ramaphosa said.
Pavan Kulkarni
Historic General Strike in South Africa Sees Workers Raise Issues of Corruption, Job Loss
09 Oct 2020
The strike was called by the Congress of South African Trade Unions and was joined by the South African Federation of Trade Unions and other organizations. It may set the stage for a new phase of…
Pavan Kulkarni
South African Unions Prepare for Historic Strike on October 7
05 Oct 2020
The strike has been called by the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the largest trade union confederation in the country and a traditional ally of the ruling ANC. The union now says the ANC has…
Pan Africanism Today Secretariat
Xenophobia in South Africa Fractures International Working-class Solidarity
07 Jul 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has strongly impacted migrants in South Africa who have been facing increasingly violent attacks and marginalization over the past decade, reinforced by xenophobic rhetoric on a…
Peoples Dispatch
Nurses in South Africa Protest Demanding PPE, Income Tax Breaks and Danger Allowance
02 May 2020
The protests were organized by the Young Nurses Indaba Trade Union. Other demands included the immediate and periodic testing of all healthcare workers and compulsory, conducive, decent and habitable…
Pavan Kulkarni
Army Brought in to Aid Illegal Evictions in South Africa, Several Left Homeless Amid Lockdown
04 Apr 2020
The Azania shack dwellers’ settlement of Abahlali baseMjondolo in Durban, was attacked by agents hired by the eThekwini municipality authorities on April 2. 15 shacks were demolished, leaving several…
Pavan Kulkarni
As South Africa Locks Down, the Homeless Left Most Vulnerable
30 Mar 2020
Soon after the lockdown began in South Africa, security forces patrolling the streets of Johannesburg were seen chasing homeless people with batons. Later in the afternoon, eight shacks were…
Peoples Dispatch
South African Court Permits NUMSA to Supply Food to Striking Workers of Lanxess Chrome
19 Mar 2020
Workers had begun a sit-in strike underground in Lanxess’s Rustenburg mine on February 17 against various issues, including sexual harassment and the exploitation of contract workers at the mine.
Pavan Kulkarni
The Crisis of South Africa’s Energy Company and Unions’ Plan to Save it
17 Jan 2020
Union’s solution to the crisis in Eskom is a reversal of the government’s policy of decommissioning Eskom’s power production units and outsourcing the energy requirement to private companies
PTI
African National Congress Retains Power in South Africa
11 May 2019
ANC won with a reduced majority, while two parties to the Right and Left increased their votes share in the general election.