Mister Sweet workers shut down labour department

They claim that an inspector left a Mister Sweet factory with “a lot of packets of sweets”

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News | 30 October 2024

Community health workers picket outside Labour Court

NEHAWU has brought a case to compel the health department to give the workers permanent jobs

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Brief | 30 October 2024

Court bid to declare social grant regulations unconstitutional

About 8-million people are being denied the R370 SRD grant according to the Institute for Economic Justice

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Law | 29 October 2024

Opposition to open cast coal mining in Midvaal

For years residents have been objecting to the Springfield and Vlakfontein mining project

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News | 29 October 2024

Another worker loses a finger at Mister Sweet

Second injury to a casual worker as strike enters its 11th week

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Brief | 28 October 2024

Development of Tshwane settlement stalled by power struggle

“Founder” of Ebhubesini blocks land surveyors from starting housing process

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News | 28 October 2024

Elderly Ga-Rankuwa residents march to demand tarred roads

“When it rains we can’t even go to the shops”

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Brief | 25 October 2024

Concourt showdown on copyright bill

The court will hear two applications relating to copyright and the rights of blind people to convert works into accessible formats

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Law | 23 October 2024

Stop the killing and intimidation of whistleblowers, demand activists

Hundreds of people gathered at the Union Buildings four years to the day since environmental activist Fikile Ntshangase was murdered

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News | 23 October 2024

Talks on penguin litigation fail to break deadlock

But environment minister and bird conservation groups both say an out-of-court settlement is yet possible

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News | 21 October 2024

Informal miners burnt to death during police raid: Families demand justice

Several miners died and scores more sustained severe burns during an Operation Vala Umgodi raid in August

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News | 21 October 2024

Criminal charges for previous head of Gauteng Department of Social Development

Matilda Gasela is facing corruption and fraud charges for tender irregularities when she was head of the agriculture department

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News | 17 October 2024

Johannesburg community plays cat-and-mouse with City Power

City Power removed and confiscated 60,000 kilograms of aluminium cables valued at R6-million

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Brief | 17 October 2024

Ombud lambasts Legal Practice Council

The council and its disciplinary committee not only failed to act in the public interest but also contributed to injustice, says Judge Siraj Desai

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Law | 17 October 2024

Using radiation to stop the traffic of rhino horns

The Wits Rhisotope project hopes to help conservation efforts

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Science | 16 October 2024

Understanding the High Court ruling on rape and consent

Minister of Justice opposed the case to have “defence of subjective consent to rape” scrapped

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Law | 14 October 2024