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The 2021 South African unrest, also known as the July 2021 riots, [23] the Zuma unrest [24] or Zuma riots, [25] was a wave of civil unrest that occurred in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces from 9 to 18 July 2021, sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma for contempt of court.
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 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]
South Africa's energy crisis (or load shedding) is an ongoing period of widespread national power outages beginning at the end of 2007. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The South African government-owned national power utility, and primary power generator, Eskom , and various parliamentarians have attributed these rolling blackouts to insufficient generation capacity.
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 .
On 4 December 2007, the Union went on strike to protest working conditions in South Africa's mines. The strike was spurred on by a rise in worker fatalities from 2006 to 2007, despite a government plan in October to reduce fatalities. Less than 5% of mineworkers came to work on that day. [5]
A number of strike actions were voted on and approved by workers throughout 2021, but were called off before the action could begin: 2021 IATSE strike; [81] 2021 Icelandic air traffic controllers labour dispute; [82] 2021 Kaiser Permanente labor dispute; [83] 2021 South Korea healthcare workers labour dispute; [84] [85]
Pages in category "Labour disputes in South Africa" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... 2007 South Africa miners' strike;