Cosatu has accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of being averse to confrontation.The trade union federation plans to embark on a general strike to force the government to act against corruption. Cosatu president Zingisa Losi said Ramaphosa has the power to act on corruption. Cosatu's leadership has called out President Cyril Ramaphosa for being "confrontation averse" in the fight…
ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule. Felix Dlangamandla, Netwerk24 ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule sent Cosatu in Limpopo an invitation to meet to discuss the party's decision to reinstate Florence Radzilani and Danny Msiza.Radzilani and Msiza have been implicated in the VBS looting scandal.The SACP has also voiced its displeasure over the ANC's decision to reinstate them.The Congress…
Matthew Parks of Cosatu. (FIN24) Trade union federation Cosatu was left disillusioned with Tito Mboweni's budget.Opposition parties were generally uninspired.The move to a zero-based budget approach was welcomed, while state debt was a general concern.While opposition parties were generally uninspired by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni's supplementary budget he delivered on Wednesday, his most strident criticism…
4 min read AT A GLANCE, getting good sleep seems pretty straightforward. Get (roughly) 8 hours of sleep every night. Check. Make sure nothing is waking you up in the middle of the night. Double check. But as you go down your checklist, have you crossed off what should be item number one? It turns
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Some issues, like immigration or student loans, are too divisive to unite Trinity Moravian Church. “We’ve got quite a spread of political beliefs,” said the Rev. John Jackman, who leads this 114-year-old red-brick church near Winston-Salem’s old textile mills. Conservative Republicans sit with liberal Democrats. Supporters of President Donald Trump mix with
17 min read IT’S APPROACHING 11 A.M. on a humid day in May. Ben Simmons has been out fishing in the waters southeast of Miami since 6:15, his boat pushing away from the marina with a waning crescent still hung in the sky. The 29-year-old has spent most of the morning up on the bow