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The strike had a strong unifying effect on staff, bringing them together across race, class and employment categories. [2] During the strike, Professor Dasarath Chetty, director of public relations, circulated emails to staff threatening to dock pay for time spent not at work, and instructing them not to speak to the press about the strike. [2]
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 South African National Defence Force was called to KwaZulu-Natal to help after deadly flooding and mudslides hit the area over the weekend, with damage still visible on April 12.Footage ...
Protests in the Siyahlala shack settlement in Gugulethu, Cape Town, [87] the Zakheleni [88] and Puntan's Hill shack settlements in Durban, [89] as well as Marrianridge, also in Durban, [90] Oliphantshoek in the Northern Cape [91] and Port Elizabeth [92] in 2012; The 2012 Marikana miner strike [93]
Universities across the UK were hit by walkouts, with lectures and seminars cancelled, as 70,000 staff started an unprecedented period of strike action. Meanwhile, cities across the country saw ...
On 10 August 2012, thousands of NUM members began a series of wildcat strikes at Lonmin's Marikana mines linked to demands for increased pay. The following day, NUM leaders allegedly opened fire on striking NUM members who were marching to their offices to demand support from their union - an incident now acknowledge as the first violent incident during the strikes.
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.
T housands of Starbucks baristas across the country are on strike Thursday, one of the coffee giant’s biggest sales days of the year, as part of organizers’ longterm fight for better wages ...