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12 Feb 2020

'Oppose pension capture!'

Trade union Solidarity has started a legal process to stop what it calls "the capture" of public servants’ pensions. In a letter to the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) as well as the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), Solidarity’s legal team has demanded that the Trustees and the Board of these institutions should not accept the controversial plan to finance Eskom from the GEPF.

16 Aug 2019

'All avenues being considered to fight NHI'

The Solidarity Institute announced today in a statement that it is considering all avenues to fight the ‘damaging effects’ the implementation of the National Health Insurance (NHI) will have.
12 May 2017

Eskom stability now of key importance - Solidarity

Trade union Solidarity today said that it is now key that Eskom, the national electricity utility, puts stability first. This comes after Eskom’s former CEO, Brian Molefe, has been reappointed to his previous post after much controversy.
22 Feb 2017

Budget 2017 - Joe Public to foot the bill for declining ANC support – Solidarity

Trade union Solidarity today, after the February Budget Speech, levelled strong criticism at the ANC government’s political promises – promises that now have to be funded to a greater extent by the tax payer in the national budget.
10 Feb 2017

SONA: Government intervention and poor policy will hamstring the economy

Trade union Solidarity today said that President Jacob Zuma’s proposed steps for “radical economic transformation,” referred to in the State of the Nation address, are a continuation of a harmful policy that will not get the country out of the fix it is in, but would rather suppress the economy even further.
09 Feb 2017

SONA: Zuma will focus on faction rather than on unification – Solidarity

Trade union Solidarity today said that this year’s State of the Nation Address will not differ much from previous ones.
06 Feb 2017

Mining Indaba: 'Minister Zwane missed the opportunity to attract investors'

Trade union Solidarity today said that in his opening address at the annual Mining Indaba in Cape Town, Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane missed out on an opportunity to attract investors, and in so doing curb job losses in the mining sector.
06 Nov 2016

Solidarity calls for the appointment of Acting President

The trade union Solidarity has called on cabinet for the appointment of an Acting President, pending the finalisation of the report by the Commission of Enquiry as directed by the Public Protector in her report on state capture. The trade union filed a petition at Parliament and delivered letters to the Cabinet and the Office...
17 Oct 2016

State capture should be Mkwhebane's priority – Solidarity

Trade union Solidarity said today that state capture and combating corruption should take top priority with the new public protector, Busisiwe Mkwhebane, as it did with Thuli Madonsela. This is according to Dr Eugene Brink, political analyst at the Solidarity Research Institute.
13 Oct 2016

Zuma expedites the end of his own reign - Solidarity

The time has come to oust Zuma so the country does not have to suffer under him anymore.  This is according to trade union Solidarity.

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