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The 2023 South African National Shutdown was a protest held by the political party Economic Freedom Fighters on 20 March 2023, the day before Human Rights Day. [ 8 ] [ 4 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The EFF called for the resignation of President Cyril Ramaphosa and an end to load-shedding .
The 2023 Cape Town taxi strike, also known as the 2023 Western Cape taxi strike, was a law enforcement dispute between minibus taxi operators in the Western Cape province of South Africa, as represented by South African National Taxi Council (SANTACO), and the City of Cape Town. [5]
The strike by unions representing around 3,000 of its 5,000-strong workforce comes after they rejected SAA's wage offer late on Thursday (November 14) The cost of the strike in dollars will reach ...
The strike began when members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), a union representing about 155,000 workers, went on strike on October 5, 2021. [1] [2] That day, NUMSA held a large rally in the city of Johannesburg, attracting thousands of demonstrators, many clad in the union's signature red.
The 1973 Durban strikes are widely cited by academics as a turning point in South Africa's industrial relations system as it gave rise to the black trade union movement [10] [3] [2] [11] and was a major step forward in the struggle to build a mass democratic opposition to apartheid which played a central role in the struggle for the ...
The 2007 South African public servants' strike was a general strike of workers in the public sector of South Africa. It was led by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), which is currently in a labour/political alliance with the governing African National Congress (ANC) party of Thabo Mbeki (since succeeded by Jacob Zuma).
South Africa's energy crisis (or load shedding) is an ongoing period of widespread national blackouts of electricity supply. It began in the later months of 2007 towards the end of Thabo Mbeki 's second term as president, and continues to the present.
New Zealand take on defending champions South Africa in the Rugby World Cup final on Saturday with both teams aiming to become the first side to win the tournament for a record fourth time.. The ...