On Wednesday, South Africans remembered Worker’s Rights on this public holiday. According to SAHistory more than 1.5 million workers observed the union COSATU’s call on the 1st of May, where thousands of school pupils, students, taxi drivers, hawkers, shopkeepers, domestic workers, self-employed people, and unemployed people joined the resistance. While the call was less successful in some regions, in Gauteng, the heartland of industry, the response was massive.
South Africa’s workers had unilaterally declared the day a public holiday, and Premier Foods became the first large employer to declare 1 May and 16 June as paid holidays. Meanwhile, in 2024, thousands of South Africans will be facing retrenchment.
Athlone Stadium will be jam-packed this Saturday, May 4, to celebrate International Firefighters’ Day. Come through and join our local heroes as they show you their skills, trucks, all their staff, and especially their firefighting gadgets. Entry is free, and everyone is welcome.
With fires sometimes raging out of control and being a real hazard in Cape Town, this is the perfect opportunity to get to know your local firefighters up, close and personal.
The Muslim Judicial Council says that Clover products will no longer be certified halaal. Moulana Zakariyah Philander says that since last year they made a policy decision, they had to decide where they stand on this BDS, boycotts, divestments, and sanctions.
Philander said that they had met with the executives of Clover, who came to an understanding about the decision and that a period would be given to phase out their logos. He says that this move is obviously part of their bigger concern about what is currently happening in Israel and Gaza, and it is their contribution to say that they would like to see peace in that part of the world. They would like to see a democracy where all citizens, Arabs and Israelis, are equal, and this is their bit of activism.
On Tuesday, Cape Town’s Taj Hotel hosted an IOL Elections Panel Discussion. IOL Editor-in-Chief, Lance Witten ran the discussion. Leader of the United Independent Movement (UIM), Neil de Beer, says that politicians need to be held accountable at all times and not at later stages. He adds that accountability is squashed later, when the deed is done. Our party will ensure the promises made are scrutinized. The UIM was joined by a number of political parties on the panel. These include the DA, ANC, MK, Bosa, IFP, NCC, GOOD, AM4C, EFF, Rise Mzansi, ActionSA, and Al Jama-ah. May 29 is voting day.
Future Elect, a platform engaged in personal leadership development’s Lindiwe Mazibuko, says that she cofounded the platform six years ago in 2017 in order to support a new generation of political leaders.
