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With pure-hearted patriotism, the community of Touws River came together on 24 September to celebrate Heritage Day by picking up litter and braaiing boerewors rolls.

The SA Municipal Workers’ Union says the recently concluded salary agreement for workers across the country’s 257 municipalities has secured an increment related to inflation in year two and three of the agreement.

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa 8 July 2021 invites workers and other readers to Spanish unions betray bank workers’ strike, agree thousands of job losses at CaixaBank Last week, trade unions at CaixaBank, Spain’s largest retail bank, agreed to the loss of 6,452 jobs, following token warning strikes and face-saving “negotiations” with management. The unions and management announced they reached an agreement on July 1, only two days after a 24-hour strike which, according to the unions, shut down over 90 percent of the bank’s branches in Spain. The unions called on...

Get to grips with the brains of youth COMMENT What happens when our national youth development strategy is to connect young people to jobs, and there are no jobs to connect them to? Then we sit with a 50% unemployment rate among 18-to-34-year-olds and fear the ticking time bomb. Perhaps our concern is not so much the potential for a grassroots civil uprising as the inexorable growth of populist movements that harness simmering discontent in pursuit of power.  But if we define the challenge so narrowly — the need to give young people jobs so that they will not become angry — we will conti...

MONEYWEB LIVESTREAM Investigations into transgressions and irregularities ‘ongoing’ in department with R87bn expenditure total in FY2020. 00:01  With inadequate accounting systems and lack of oversight, a question mark must be raised on whether all the fraud has been uncovered, says the author. Image: Jairus Mmutle, GCIS The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) has published its annual report for the financial year ended March 31, 2020. There is a slight improvement compared with the 2019 annual report, but investigations into financial irregularities...