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  • Minister of Tourism Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane at an inter-ministerial briefing on 24 March 2020 detailing how government will respond ahead of and during the 21-day lockdown announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/EWN.

    Dept of Tourism receives over 9,000 applications for relief fund

    Applications for the fund, which awards businesses a grant capped at R50,000, closes on 31 May.

    361 days ago
  • Minister of Small Business Development Khumbudzo Ntshavheni at an inter-ministerial briefing on 24 March 2020 detailing how government will respond ahead of and during the 21-day lockdown announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/EWN.

    Ntshavheni: 51% black ownership requirement for funding is fake news

    With small, medium and micro-enterprises set to be hardest hit by the national shutdown, there was fury at the suggestion that only companies that are majority black-owned would qualify for government assistance.

    395 days ago
  • Picture: EWN

    Workers not responsible for cleaning up govt's Eskom mess - Solidarity

    The organisation has told Eyewitness News that it is waiting on the scheme, which was earmarked at investing R250 billion into Eskom to be adopted before heading to court to challenge it.

    416 days ago
  • FILE: Eskom building. Picture: EWN

    Solidarity ready to challenge Nedlac plan to have PIC save Eskom

    The union has described the plan as irrational and immoral, stating that Eskom was a too high risk to invest in.

    416 days ago
  • Picture: SA Express.

    SA Express board seeks legal advice after being placed under business rescue

    The court handed down the ruling on Thursday after transport and logistics company Ziegler filed an application last month.

    441 days ago
  • Picture: SA Express.

    Solidarity welcomes court ruling placing SA Express under business rescue

    The trade union said the ruling was a result of poor management and decision making at SA Express.

    442 days ago
  • Telkom generic. Picture: Telkom on Facebook.

    Telkom to begin consultations with unions over job cuts

    The telecommunications company, which has over R11 billion worth of debt, announced it would be cutting thousands of jobs due to a weak economic environment and a rapid change in technology.

    457 days ago
  • FILE: Numsa and the South African Cabin Crew Association have denied their strike crippled SAA financially. Picture: Winnie Theletsane/EWN.

    Involved parties give SAA’s business rescue move the green light

    The meeting at the south Gauteng deputy judge president's chambers follows the confirmation on Wednesday night from the Presidency that SAA was to go into voluntary business rescue.

    505 days ago
  • FILE: A business rescue practitioner will now have to be appointed and once the administrator moves in, the board stops being in charge. Picture: AFP.

    SAA to receive R2 billion lifeline

    The airline's creditors will also provide an additional R2 billion as it begins the journey to restructuring its business and financial affairs from Thursday.

    505 days ago
  • South African Airways plane. Picture: Facebook

    Talks begin on what's next for SAA after wage deal

    SAA and trade unions, including those that enjoy minority support by workers at the state-owned airline, will meet for the first time since the company announced 944 people could lose their jobs due to the restructuring.

    515 days ago
  • Picture: AFP

    SAA to announce next step after Solidarity’s application for business rescue

    The union confirmed it had served court papers on SAA and Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan, asking the High Court in Johannesburg to give the go-ahead for business rescue.

    518 days ago
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    FIKILE-NTSIKELELO MOYA: Let's give Solidarity's 'university' its due

    It would seem that too many of us assume the hegemony of English as an academic language is as natural as leaves falling on an Autumn day. It is not, write Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.

    577 days ago
  • FILE: Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology Blade Nzimande. Picture: CapeTalk

    Nzimande cautions Solidarity against calling their institution 'a university'

    Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology Blade Nzimande said the current legal framework didn’t permit private institutions to be called universities.

    578 days ago
  • FILE: Hundreds of Solidarity Movement members marched to the JSE and Sasol’s head office in Sandton on 25 October 2018. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN

    Labour Court reserves judgment in Solidarity AA case

    The trade union approached the court arguing that some pieces of the act governing affirmative action be declared unconstitutional, in line with the SA Human Rights Commission's findings.

    582 days ago
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    Affirmative action laws are unconstitutional, Solidarity argues in court

    The court on Wednesday heard a case between trade union Solidarity and the Department of Labour relating to affirmative action.

    583 days ago
  • FILE: Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi. Picture: EWN.

    Solidarity’s Afrikaans university started ‘out of anger’, says Lesufi

    Gauteng MEC for Education Panyaza Lesufi spoke to Cape Talk’s Kieno Kammies on Monday about the construction of the Afrikaans private vocational training college.

    585 days ago
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    Solidarity heads to court in bid to have Employment Equity Act amended

    Solidarity says it will approach the Labour Court this week to request that government implement the recommendation of a report by the SAHRC on equality.

    586 days ago
  • FILE: Former group chief executive Brian Molefe at a press conference in Johannesburg on 3 November 2016. Picture: EWN

    Solidarity wants to have Brian Molefe’s property seized

    Brian Molefe had until Friday to pay R700,000to Solidarity for its legal costs in his unlawful early retirement case.

    609 days ago
  • FILE: Black First Land First Leader Andile Mngxitama. Picture: Christa Eybers/EWN.

    BLF's no-show forces postponement of hate speech case

    Trade union Solidarity took BLF to court after the group made controversial comments following the deaths of pupils at Hoërskool Driehoek in Vanderbijlpark.

    610 days ago
  • Solidarity vs BLF: Hoërskool Driehoek case postponed

    The case between Solidarity and the Black First Land First (BLF) has been postponed to 17 September 2019. Solidarity took the BLF to court for hate speech after racist comments about the Hoërskool Driehoek tragedy.

    610 days ago
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    Court orders Denel to pay over UIF, taxes deducted from employee salaries

    Solidarity said it approached the courts after it emerged that Denel was deducting taxes and UIF contributions from employee salaries but not paying them over to the required bodies.

    612 days ago
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