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INTERNATIONAL CONTAINER TERMINAL SERVICES INCORPORATED

Unions threaten legal action over jobs at Durban port

Dock workers are demanding transparency over Transnet’s partnership with the Filipino container company and an assurance there will be no retrenchments

  • Lyse Comins
4 min read
Shake-up: The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union, as well as business chambers in the country want urgent changes made to Transnet’s management team. Photo: Darren Stewart/Gallo Images
ASAC

Transnet calls on union to assist with graft claims probe

The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union has made allegations of procurement and recruitment irregularities at the state-owned entity

  • Lyse Comins
5 min read
South Africa is braced for a public sector strike, which, if all goes to plan, would be the largest in more than a decade. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
ANC

Public sector strike will come at a cost

Commentators have weighed in on the Transnet strike’s economic hit, but strike season isn’t over yet

  • Sarah Smit
6 min read
Transnet is falling well below its target of shifting 200 million to 220 million tonnes of freight a year, at which point — it is estimated — it will begin to make a meaningful contribution to the economy. Its current target is 170 million tonnes a year. Photo: (Karel Prinsloo/Bloomberg)
ANELE KIET

Transnet, majority union come to agreement on wage hike

The United Transport & Allied Trade Union has accepted a three-year settlement and will end its industrial action with immediate effect

  • Sarah Smit
2 min read
Saldanha Bay, West Coast, South Africa, Railway trucks carrying iron ore from Sishen to Saldanha Bay terminal on the West Coast of South Africa. (Photo by: Peter Titmuss/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
ALAN MUKOKI

Strike sets Transnet back — again

The industrial action is the latest in a series of economy-hitting upsets for the state logistics company

  • Sarah Smit
7 min read
Dondo Mogajane, director general of the South African National Treasury, Enoch Godongwana, South Africa’s finance minister, David Masondo, South Africa’s deputy finance minister, and Edward Kieswetter, commissioner of the South African Revenue Service (SARS), (left to right), make their way to the budget presentation in Cape Town, South Africa, on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022. South Africa cut corporate taxes and set more ambitious targets for reducing debt, after a surge in commodity prices led to higher-than-expected tax income. (Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
COSATU

Government stares down public wage conundrum

Workers are in the throes of a cost of living crisis, which could force the government to fold on its hard line against more spending

  • Sarah Smit
8 min read