One person has been arrested for alleged public violence after an altercation between protesting employees at the University of Pretoria and law enforcement officers.
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Seeing the older workers in their red Nehawu T-shirts toyi-toying outside the gates on the one side, and the fresh young faces yearning to learn on the other, brought home the invidious position we find ourselves in as a country.
The public labour sector, in particular education and health, were the biggest winners in Wednesday's budget speech as finance minister Enoch Godongwana allocated billions of rand to address wage increases.
Farmers’ protests across Europe and worldwide signify food security threatened by austerity measures to fund wars and super-profits of rich; Iraqi teachers in some Kurdistan-controlled provinces continue stoppage over pay and conditions begun September; indefinite pay strike by public sector workers in Niger State, Nigeria as inflation hits 28 percent