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…
California is weighing stiff penalties for hospitals and other healthcare entities that don’t stay under state spending limits, potentially levying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if these providers don’t take steps to rein in rising healthcare costs. If the state Office of Health Care Affordability adopts the fines next week, hospitals, medical groups
Everything Sprouts LLC of Minneapolis, MN, is recalling three varieties of alfalfa sprouts products because they have been linked to a 15-state outbreak of Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) and/or Salmonella. The recalled products were distributed by Everything Sprouts from May 27 to Aug. 21 to wholesale distributors and to grocery stores located in
The patient count for an outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite linked to iceberg lettuce has topped 10,000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting 10,930 patients as of Aug. 21, up from 9,481 reported on Aug. 13. The sick people are spread across 17 states. There are 454 patients who have