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Annual Industrial Action Report 2025

South Africa’s Annual Industrial Action Report 2025, published by the Department of Employment and Labour. Includes the report text, individually cropped charts and tables, photographs, and reporting forms.

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16 Sep 2026
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The strikes are breaking records in 2026, but why is this happening and what does it indicate?

The numbers speak for themselves. In the first half of 2026, the number of days on strike from ordinary strikes, excluding general strikes, was higher than the number accumulated in a 12-month period for any year since at least 2012. A total of 354,172 strikers who accounted for 903,396 days of ord…

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