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OPEN LETTER ON JOURNALISTS IN GAZA
Download PDF Release date: 1 March 2024 We, the undersigned, stand united with Palestinian journalists in their call for safety, protection, and the freedom to report. For nearly five months, journalists and media workers in Gaza – overwhelmingly, the sole source of on-the-ground reporting from within the Palestinian territory – have been working in unprecedented …
THE NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE ENTRENCHES APARTHEID’S CHEAP BLACK LABOUR
“The working class does not need to know the food poverty line, the lower-bound poverty line or the upper bound poverty line to know that it is starving. The 1 March increase in the national minimum wage from R25.42 to R27.45 has been hailed in many quarters, most particularly by Cosatu”
UPDATE ON THE GIWUSA STRIKE AT RCL Foods
“Members of the General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA) working at RCL foods in in Tzaneen, Loius Trichard and Thohoyandou, yesterday embarked on an indefinite strike due to failed wage increment negotiations. The workers responded to the call…”
Transgender Guardian Alliance Hosts a Dialogue in Daveyton
“Transgender Guardian Alliance (TGA), an organisation that deals with transgender issues, in partnership with Access Chapter 2(AC2) which advocates for queer rights, were joined by parents from the Parents Family, Friends of South African Queers (PFSAQ), and the queer community…”
UPDATE ON THE GIWUSA STRIKE AT RCL FOODS
“Members of the General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA) working at RCL foods in Tzaneen, Loius Trichard and Thohoyandou, yesterday embarked on an indefinite strike due to failed wage increment negotiations.”
135 WORKERS AT MISTER SWEETS DEMAND R16 000 BASIC SALARY NOW OR THEY WILL STRIKE!
“The CWAO/SWF is taking Mister Sweet, owned by Premier Foods, to the CCMA on 29 February, after several months of the company refusing to pay workers a basic salary. Mister Sweet makes sweets and supplies Spar and Woolworths, among other shops. It has very poor health and safety practices and workers often get injured there.”
What’s Happening in Eastern Congo and Why Aid Groups are Warning of a New Crisis
“CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Aid organisations fear a new humanitarian crisis in the restive eastern Congo region, where the renowned armed rebel group M23 is in the midst of a new advance that threatens to cut off a major…”
WiARM – SA MIDVAAL GAUTENG
“WiARM, a movement of black farming women formed in early 2023, with assistance from OFHR. For a year, they have been using direct actions, political education, mobilising of women farm owners, which the 1994 democracy used instant gratification to sell land for the first time to black farmers who had a lot of hope”
AYANDA KOTA’S FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS THIS WEEK
“The Unemployed Peoples Movement (UPM), in association with the Makana Citizens Front (MCF), the Black Consciousness Movement United (BCMU), the Assembly of the Unemployed, the Zabalaza Movement for Socialism, Cry of the Excluded, Pathways Institute and the Inyanda National Land Movement will host several political activities”
A Tribute to the Late Activist and Dramatist, Ricky Bopape
“It is hardly two months since the passing of the creative centre coordinator for Rena Le Lona Creative Centre, Ricky Bopape. Cultural worker, Bopape was well-loved and regarded, and was a valuable facilitator at the orphaned and vulnerable centre where he…”
ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO AMICUS INTERVENTION: BROMWELL STREET MATTER.
“On Tuesday, 27 February 2024, the Constitutional Court will hear the matter of Commando & Others v The City of Cape Town & Another. The matter has been brought by the residents of Bromwell Street who are represented by Ndifuna Ukwazi. Abahlali baseMjondolo (Abahlali) have been admitted as amicus curiae (friend of the court) and are represented by the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI).”
