#SouthAfrica: drivers fired after joining #union, forced to stay in a room for 8 hours for refusing to hand in cellphones

https://www.dailyvoice.co.za/western-cape/33-intercape-drivers-fired-b21e8ef8-5b2a-435e-b4ee-2aeb92c29ba8

#unions #UnionBusting #Intercape #COSATU #NUFAS #EdwardNathanSonnenbergs #exploitation #capitalism #ClassWar

#SouthAfrica: #Vodacom CEO paid more in year than most earn in entire career, profits growing, sends 80 into #unemployment where they will struggle to find work, be danger of losing their homes

https://mediadon.co.za/2024/03/21/cosatu-is-utterly-appalled-by-vodacoms-shocking-threat-to-retrench-workers/

#union #unions #COSATU #capitalism #exploitation #ClassWar

#SouthAfrica: #unions march against mayor and #corruption, "As workers we are the last line of defence for good governance, efficient service delivery as well as honest leadership"

https://mediadon.co.za/2024/02/23/cosatu-general-secretary-cde-solly-phetoe-to-lead-samwu-free-state-march-in-matjhabeng-municipality/

#union #strike #strikes #COSATU #SAMWU #Matjhabeng #Welkom #ThanduxoloKhalipa #Khalipa #FreeState #exploitation #ClassWar

@GrahamDowns I think there is a second perspective: This #NHI discussion is a big opportunity. Not necessarily in the way the #ANC would like it to be, quite the opposite:

Now *all* eyes are on #ANC #corruption and #StateCapture in the #HealthSystem in #SouthAfrica.

Before, private health care for those who could afford it was good, so the only ones who lost out big time were those limited to public health care - and those did not have a voice that was heard.

This is changing now: Those with money and power outside the ANC wake up and start to care. And *also* those inside #COSATU and #ANC that are in #MedicalScheme|s and don't want to lose their quality care, no matter what they say publicly.

At the same time, the current system is not fair, social or human - neither can it be that those who can afford it are paying horrendous amounts for private health profits nor that large parts of society do not get quality health care at all.

I am not saying that the #NHI bill in the current form will work or is even more than a smoke screen, but I also think that we are seeing the beginning of a discourse and not the end of it.

A discourse the ANC can not control in the way they thought they could. They might have opened Pandoras Box now...

@royal @kaasbaas

http://mediadon.co.za/2023/10/18/cosatu-limpopo-disturbed-by-extreme-leniency-by-the-judiciary-towards-those-convicted-of-serious-crimes/

#SouthAfrica: #Union protests leniency for #corruption, while #ShopStewards assassinated for exposing it

#unions #HumanRights #assassinations #COSATU #NPA #VBS #WhistleBlowing #capitalism #ClassWar #oppression