Eastern Cape ANC secretary Lulama Ngcukayitobi has called for the country to cut its economic relationship with the state of Israel.This comes after the party and its alliance partners in the Eastern Cape held a picket in East London calling for the boycott of Israeli goods.
The ANC’s alliance partners in the Eastern Cape have said they will support the party in the 2024 general elections but have raised a list of concerns they say it needs to pay attention to. Provincial leaders of the alliance said at the weekend that the ANC could no longer ignore the fact that the majority of the people were still living below the poverty line 29 years after SA’s first democratic elections.
The Amathole district municipality plans to slash hundreds of jobs in a bid to reduce a salary bill that puts the municipality's financial wellbeing at risk.
Fifteen months after the crippling Amathole district municipality strike action in 2020, which left a trail of destruction when municipal assets valued at over R20m were vandalised, a group of almost 20 union members are in hot water and face a disciplinary hearing. The group of 18 South African Municipal Workers Union-aligned officials have been charged for their alleged involvement in an illegal strike action from November 9 to December 21.