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Security guards marched to the Civic Centre and the offices of the Cape Town Central City Improvement District (CCID) on Friday following the suspension of about 200 workers last month by security firm, Phangela Group. Photo: Vincent Lali Security guards who work in Cape Town’s city centre marched to the Civic Centre and the offices of the Cape Town Central City Improvement … [Read more...] about Hundreds of city centre security guards suspended in Cape Town

[embedded content] Former nurse Johan van Zyl describes his horrific experience in Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria. © 2022 GroundUp. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. You may republish this article, so long as you credit the authors and GroundUp, and do not change the text. Please include a link back … [Read more...] about Video: How not to treat a patient

CEO of Habata Group, Hannes Joubert, says they are yet to tally the total cost of damaged property as well as the impact the protest is having on the local sector. He added that the biggest loss in the citrus fruit industry is investor confidence in the Eastern Cape. Photo: Thamsanqa Mbovane The High Court in Gqeberha has granted an interim interdict to farm owners in the … [Read more...] about Eastern Cape court interdicts protesting workers from being 500m from farms

We spoke to immigrant truck drivers at a popular stop in Kempton Park about their experiences with groups targeting them and accusing them of taking jobs from South Africans. Photo: Kimberly Mutandiro Immigrant truck drivers say they work in fear of being attacked by anti-immigrant groups. The drivers we spoke to say they had previously been attacked by groups of men accusing … [Read more...] about “I prayed for them to let me live” says Zimbabwean truck driver

Illustration: Lisa Nelson An employee fired for eating two slices of carrot at Nando’s Scottsville must be reinstated the Durban Labour Court has ruled. He was fired in 2018 for dishonesty after a disciplinary hearing. The employee said he had tasted the carrots to check if they were still frozen. The judge said although the company had adopted a zero-tolerance approach to its … [Read more...] about Nando’s gets the stick for firing a man who tasted its carrots