Spending the first 48 hours with no food, then enduring a week of suspected food poisoning, cold showers, sharing single mattresses, receiving no medical attention and even being threatened at gunpoint by a junior official. These were just some of the disturbing experiences a group of police trainees said they suffered during a hellish week at a military base in Kimberley.
Spending the first 48 hours with no food, then enduring a week of suspected food poisoning, cold showers, sharing single mattresses, receiving no medical attention and even being threatened at gunpoint by a junior official.
The worsening decline of NUM and other industrial unions will weaken the capacity of Cosatu as the country's biggest federation in its role to defend workers from both big business and the government.
The gathering, initiated by National Treasury and other government departments, is meant to set a roadmap for the public service wage bill which the state is desperate to curtail.