Minister launches transport month
Transport minister Dipuo Peters launched Transport Month by vowing to tighten the screws on syndicates involved in issuing fraudulent drivers’ licenses, who she blamed for exorbitant statistics of road fatalities. Peters issued this warning when officially opening the Intabazwe Testing Station at Harrismith on Tuesday this week. “We are aware of the syndicates that operate within testing stations where a traffic officer connive with driving school owners to issue drivers licences to people who do not qualify. Some do not even know how to drive but they have a driver’s license obtained in exchange of money. “Such activities must come…
Union blasts SAPO treatment of workers
The South African Post Office (SAPO) has come in for tough criticism from Cosatu in the Free State over what the labour federation calls ‘unreasonable and unacceptable treatment of workers’. This after Cosatu was told that postmen are forced to fix their delivery bicycles when they are broken, and are not provided with protective clothing for inclement weather conditions, according to the union’s provincial secretary, Menyatso oa Mahlatsi, who was speaking following fact-finding visits to post offices around the province. He said: “Deliverymen and women work in very terrible conditions; that they do not have uniforms and protective clothing despite…
SACP wants a Morogoro indaba
Says such a conference will help ANC re-position and re-energise itself in the same way the real Morogoro conference did 47 years ago The South African Communist Party (SACP) in the Free State is calling for a Morogoro-type consultative conference to cobble up a plan to strengthen the ANC’s position as the leading force driving the national democratic revolution. This was said by SACP provincial chairperson, Bheki Stofile, in an interview with The Weekly held on the sidelines of a bilateral meeting that the party recently held in Bloemfontein with the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu). The…
