The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU) takes this opportunity to congratulate the South African Communist Party [SACP] on the historic milestone of its Centenary celebration. The SACP was founded on the 30th July 1921 as the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). The celebration of this historic milestone is marked during a […]

 The COSATU-affiliated Southern African Clothing & Textile Workers Union (SACTWU) welcomes the National Department of Health’s (NDOH) decision to immediately open up the COVID-19 vaccination rollout programme for over 18-year old workers.  SACTWU has recently made a public call for this to happen, and is pleased that this is now a concrete reality.  This decisive […]

The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU) notes the statement by President Cyril Ramaphosa announcing the decision by the Cabinet to move the country to adjusted alert Level 3 of the COVID-19 lockdown regulations. The decision by the government comes against the background of a decline in the number of COVID-19 cases over […]

The Clothing, Textile, Footwear & Leather (CTFL) Stakeholder Initiative Forum has over the last few days reflected on the events which had unfolded in our country, in particular relating to the recent incidents of looting and destruction which had taken place in KZN and parts of Gauteng. The CTFL Stakeholder Initiative Forum consists of all […]

For over 6 decades the successive US governments have endeavoured to destroy the Cuban Revolution through myriad of (both direct and indirect) attacks aimed at overthrowing the political establishment in Cuba, only because this revolution had chosen an alternative route to that of the US. In recent period the US has intensified the blockade on […]

Wednesday, July 14, 2021 The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union [NEHAWU] denounces the orchestrated and well-financed American counter-revolutionary agenda of destabilizing Cuba through violence, social unrest, and public disorder to collapse the country.  The latest attempts to destabilize Cuba form part of the broader agenda of strengthening the decades of the commercial and […]

 The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) strongly condemns the current looting, violence, and lawlessness that is currently unfolding in the country especially in the two volatile provinces of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.  In the aftermath of this situation many workers will lose their jobs . Many families will be left with no means of earning a […]

 The COSATU-affiliated Southern African Clothing & Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU) voices its deep concern about the serious damage that the recent looting in KwaZulu-Natal and elsewhere has caused to workers and their families.  In particular, we are deeply disturbed at the looting and burning of factories and other workplaces.  For example, in Isithebe, a brand […]

As had been communicated on Wednesday, the 7th of July 2021, wage negotiations commenced again today, the 9th of July 2021, wherein the employer presented their final offer.The employer has not moved an inch from their previous offer, and have refused to entertain any substantive issues in the draft agreement, indicating that what is contained […]

The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union [NEHAWU] convened its Special National Executive Committee on Thursday, the 08th July 2021 to finalise its position on the current revised offer by government to the wage demands of public servants and also to map up a way forward. This Special NEC took place after the union […]