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18 May 2013
                       
 
 
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20 Feb 2013
 
 
Solidarity threatens lawsuit over Medupi peace accord
LABOUR
Trade union Solidarity on Wednesday retracted its decision to advise its members to sign a peace agreement between subcontractors and workers at the Medupi power plant and warned it would institute...
 
 
Solidarity: Statement by Deon Reyneke, Solidarity Head of Metal, Engineering and Electrical Industry, on considering legal action over Medupi peace agreement (20/02/2013)
STATEMENT
Trade union, Solidarity, today in writing notified the employers at Eskom’s Medupi building site in Lephalale that it is considering legal action should its members not be exempted from the...
 
 
19 Feb 2013
 
SA: Statement by Greenpeace Africa, non-governmental environmental organisation, Fukushima suffering continues, but nuclear regulations make the public pay (19/02/2013)
STATEMENT
The fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster continues for hundreds of thousands of victims in Japan still denied fair compensation from a regulatory system that allows the nuclear industry to...
 
 
18 Feb 2013
 
SA: Mamphela Ramphele: Address by the founder of the Citizens Movement for Social Change, during the occasion of the announcement of her political plans, Women’s Jail, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg (18/02/2013)
SPEECH
Fellow South African citizens, I am here today to invite you to join me on a journey to build the country of our dreams. I ask those of you of my generation: let us cast our minds back to the run...
 
 
15 Feb 2013
 
Medupi construction remains halted
Electricity
Development work at the Medupi power plant remained suspended owing to a prolonged labour dispute between subcontractors and workers, parastatal Eskom spokesperson Hilary Joffe told Engineering...
 
 
24 Jan 2013
 
Medupi workers still not back at work
Electricity
Workers at Eskom’s Medupi power station were not yet back at work by Thursday, despite continued engagement between union representatives and subcontractors
 
 
21 Jan 2013
 
Medupi workers to return to work on Tuesday
Electricity
Workers at Eskom’s Medupi power station would return to work on Tuesday, following positive engagement between union representatives and subcontractors, an Eskom spokesperson said on Monday.
 
 
17 Jan 2013
 
Medupi worker lock-out continues as safety concerns remain
Electricity
Eskom and contractors at the Medupi power station had chosen not to allow workers to return to work on Thursday morning, following illegal protest action on Wednesday that disrupted bus transport...
 
 
15 Jan 2013
 
UDM: Statement by Bantu Holomisa, United Democratic Movement President, on Eskom's proposed tariff increase (15/01/2013)
STATEMENT
The United Democratic Movement calls on all South Africans to resist Eskom’s application to raise electricity prices by 16 per cent per year over the next five years. This is because the ruling...
 
 
25 Sep 2012
 
SA: Mamphela Ramphele: Address by Founder of the Citizens Movement, at a Conference at Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland (25/09/2012)
SPEECH
In order to do justice to this weighty and worthwhile exploration my address will take the following format. Firstly, I will discuss the difficulty of making the transition from liberation...
 
 
01 Aug 2012
 
Nersa looking to cost reflective price by 2018
ELECTRICITY PRICES
The national energy regulator confirmed on Wednesday that it aims to heed Eskom's call to have South Africans pay cost reflective electricity prices by 2018. Nersa's Thembani Bukula said the...
 
 
29 Jun 2012
 
M&R says Medupi ‘derisked’ following Eskom agreement
POWER PROJECT
Construction group Murray & Roberts (M&R) says the risks associated with its Eskom-related projects have been dealt with after it reached an ‘in-principle agreement’ with the State-owned power...
 
 
09 Mar 2012
 
South Africa goes big on nuclear a year on from Fukushima
NUCLEAR
South Africa will come to the rescue of a nuclear industry, still struggling for customers a year after Japan's Fukushima disaster, with a tender for one of the world's biggest atomic power deals....
 
 
21 Feb 2012
 
UDM: Holomisa: Address by the president, on political party funding in SA, Cape Town (21/02/2012)
Topics
We would like to thank IDASA for affording us an opportunity to participate in this political party funding debate. The UDM has been batting on this wicket for a while now.
 
 
24 Oct 2011
 
UDM: Open letter toJacob Zuma by Bantu Holomisa, United Democratic Movement president, calling for an economic indaba (24/10/2011)
Statements

It has become the norm for South Africans to express their dissatisfaction with the performance of either the public or private sectors through mass action. People participate in marches...

 
 
 
                       
 
 
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