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.
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.
Episode 2 of popEd is now live. South Africa does not have a shortage of political parties. Yet when progressive forces confront a political crisis, the proposed solution is often the same: form another one. Veteran trade unionist and political educator Dinga Sikwebu calls this “party mania” - t…
• Rapula Moatshe The collapse of Cosatu’s R12 million, 15th National Congress at the Gallagher Convention Centre this week – the first such breakdown in the federation’s nearly 40-year history – has laid bare deep divisions within South Africa’s organised labour movement. While the official expla…
For the first time in its 40 year history, SA’s biggest union gathering did not reach quorum COSATU’s 15th National Congress failed to get underway as a leadership battle led to unresolved disputes over delegate credentials. Photos: Greg Dor • COSATU was unable to reach a quorum at its 15th Natio…
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) is outraged by the continuing loss of mineworkers’ lives at Harmony Gold. According to information now in the public domain, 46 mineworkers have died at Harmony operations over the past five years, including eight workers already in 2026. These …
This year marks fourteen years since the Marikana massacre, during which police shot and killed 34 striking mineworkers on 16 August 2012. Between 12 and 13 August 2012, ten people were killed, including two Lonmin security guards, two police officers, and six mineworkers. At least 78 mineworkers w…
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