While much of the focus of the just transition has been on coal mining communities in Mpumalanga, the impoverished Northern Cape is the epicentre of renewable energy developments. Innovative measures can ensure local communities benefit.
In the Quarterly Labour Force Survey, both provinces are amongst three provinces in the country which recorded employment losses, the Free State with 4 000, North West with 4 000, and Mpumalanga re.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) fully supports its affiliated union, the South African Municipal Workers Union's march to the offices of the Gauteng Premier and those of the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) tomorrow, 11 May 2023. The National Leaders of the Federation will join SAMWU in support of workers’ reasonable and sensible demands. The union will be submitting a memorandum of demands pushing both SALGA and the government to deal with the myriad of pertinent issues affecting workers and service delivery across local government.
Since Tuesday afternoon, the DA has received desperate calls from Community Works Programme (CWP) participants who have not been paid their stipends, as scheduled, by the Department of Cooperative Governance (COGTA). The participants received an SMS message notifying them that they won’t be receiving payment on the 25th April 2023 because COGTA was in a transitional process after it took a decision not to renew the contracts of implementing agents.